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Kwangpho Duck Farm Reconstructed

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

   Pyongyang, November 18 (KCNA) -- The Kwangpho Duck Farm located in Jongphyong County, South Hamgyong Province, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, has been reconstructed on a modern basis. The farm covering a vast acreage has more than 110 main production and auxiliary buildings including breeder houses, duckling houses, open-air breeding yards, hatcheries, processing shops, cold-storage, computer center and sanitary house.
    Each breeder house is capable of raising thousands of ducks and its light, temperature, humidity, ventilation, feeding and watering are controlled by computers.
    The processing and cold-storage shops with a capacity of processing and freezing hundreds of tons of duck a day are on a streamline. The processes for smoking ducks and processing by-products have also been reconstructed on a modern basis.
    During the hard-fought Fatherland Liberation War, President Kim Il Sung, with a firm conviction in the victory of the war, instructed officials to build a large-scale duck farm in Kwangpho. After the war, he saw to it to start its construction and send duck eggs for hatching by air. Kim Jong Il has wisely led the reconstruction of the duck farm associated with the affection shown by the President.