National Agricultural Meeting Held
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)
Pyongyang, January 26 (KCNA) -- A national agricultural meeting was held at the April 25 House of Culture on Wednesday. Present there were Kim Yong Nam, Pak Pong Ju, Ri Yong Mu, Choe Thae Bok, Kim Jung Rin and other senior officials, chief secretaries of provincial committees of the Workers' Party of Korea, Cabinet members, and chairmen of the management boards of farms, secretaries of ri-committees of the WPK, workteam leaders, sub-workteam leaders and members of the farms who distinguished themselves in farming, scientists and technicians in the agricultural field, leading officials of provincial, city and county committees of the WPK and people's committees and agricultural guidance bodies, and officials of ministries, national institutions and factories and enterprises of the relevant field.
Kwak Pom Gi, vice-premier of the Cabinet, in a report at the meeting said that last year leader Kim Jong Il energetically led the agricultural field after singling out it as a key front in the socialist economic construction and setting forth a revolutionary policy of concentrating and mobilizing all forces on farming.
Last year the whole country made fresh progress in the agricultural production through energetic endeavors to do farming well true to Kim Jong Il's noble intention, he said, adding that the servicepersons and people of the DPRK came to have stronger confidence in practice that they can successfully carry out the Party's intention and resolution to satisfactorily solve the food problem when they hold fast to its policy of agricultural revolution. Today we are faced with a heavy yet honorable task to make a great leap forward in agriculture so as to attain at any cost the target of grain production set forth by the party and thus drastically increase the overall agricultural production this year, he said.
He called on everybody to turn out in the agricultural front this year regarding President Kim Il Sung's last instructions "Rice precisely means socialism" as guidelines.
He underscored the need to bring about a drastic turn in agricultural production this year by concentrating and mobilizing all forces for farming once again in response to the joint New Year editorial.
He called for waging a vigorous drive to implement the Party's policy to bring about a signal turn in seed improvement, potato farming, double-cropping and soya bean cultivation just as the People's Army did.
He continued: The agricultural field should establish Juche in seed production, produce a variety of good species suited to the climatic conditions of the country, allocate crops well on the principle of right crop on the right soil and right crop in the right time and manure and cultivate crops on a scientific and technological basis.
It is necessary to channel sustained big efforts into rice cultivation, sow high-yielding seeds and improve the manuring and cultivation as required by the Party policies. It is also important to expand the area under high-yielding potato, take thorough-going measures to prevent epidemics, select right soil for double-cropping and provide meticulous technological guidance and ensure a high yield of before and after crops.
It is required to implement the Party's policy to develop agriculture in combination with stock-breeding so as to solve both the food and meat problems. Greater quantity of compost should be applied to paddy and non-paddy fields to decisively increase the soil fertility. Waterway projects and land realignment should be pushed forward without let-up in different areas including the Miru Plain, land management be improved, mechanization and the use of chemicals be stepped up and various types of more efficient farm machines and greater quantities of fertilizers be produced and supplied to the countryside.
More rapes should be cultivated as the first crop so as to consistently push forward the work to solve the problem of cooking oil and efforts be made to boost the agricultural production as a whole including vegetable, cash crops, stock-breeding, fruit-growing and sericulture. It is necessary for the field of agricultural scientific research to successfully solve scientific and technological problems arising in implementing the Party's policy of agricultural revolution.
The reporter underlined the need for the agricultural field to direct to the grain production as many rural labor forces as possible and concentrate all machines, equipment and materials on farming.
Speeches were made at the meeting.
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