Anniversary of Kim Il Sung's Planting of Rice Seedlings Marked
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)
Pyongyang, June 7 (KCNA) -- A meeting was held today to mark the 60th anniversary of President Kim Il Sung's planting of rice seedlings in the Mirim Plain.
Present there were Kim Ki Nam, secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, Ro Tu Chol, vice-premier of the Cabinet, Ri Kyong Sik, minister of Agriculture, and others.
Kye Yong Sam, president of the Academy of Agricultural Science, in a report said that after enforcing a land reform as the first democratic policy in the period of building a new country the President visited the Mirim Plain on June 7, Juche 36 (1947). After acquainting himself with species of rice seedlings, their biological characteristics and technical requirement for rice transplantation, he planted rice seedlings together with farmers, saying that he was so impressed to plant rice seedlings for the first time after his return to the homeland.
The reporter said that Kim Jong Il was convinced of the bright future of the agricultural development in the country while visiting the plain together with anti-Japanese war hero Kim Jong Suk, and energetically led the drive to translate the President's long-term plan for building socialist countryside into a reality on this land.
The reporter underlined the need for the officials and working people in the field of agriculture to work hard to realize the desire of the President to enable the Korean people to lead a happy life with nothing to desire more in the world.
He called on them to successfully implement the tasks to be tackled to develop the nation's agricultural science and technology and solve the food problem and thus make a positive contribution to building a great prosperous and powerful nation.
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