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Kim Jong Il Gives Field Guidance to Kosan Fruit Farm

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

   Pyongyang, May 4 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il gave field guidance to the Kosan Fruit Farm.
    After being briefed on the farm before a huge painting showing its panoramic view, he mounted the observation platform and commanded a bird's-eye view of the orchard where fruit trees of various species are in full bloom.
    He said that the farm built in 1947 under a long-term plan of President Kim Il Sung is one of the nation's leading fruit production bases.
    He acquainted himself in detail with the fruit production and the mechanization of the fruit growing on the farm and highly appreciated the fighting spirit displayed by its officials and working people and extended warm greetings to them, saying that they did a lot of work to put fruit culture on a modern and scientific basis even during so difficult period of "the Arduous March", the forced march.
    He set forth important tasks to be fulfilled by the farm.
    He underscored the need to distribute fruit trees of high-yielding species and varieties including short apple trees high in the yield of fruits, delicious and favorable for cultivation, adding that it is necessary to rationally combine early-ripening fruits with late-ripening fruits in order to supply fresh fruits to the people all the year round and replace old fruit trees with new ones under a plan and plant fruit trees in open spaces in time so as to always keep the orchards young.
    He called for realizing the comprehensive mechanization of fruit farming, having sufficient fruit-storing facilities in place and building modern fruit processing factories in the fruit production centers in order to boost the production of a variety of processed fruits.
    The Kosan Fruit Farm has a bright prospect of its development as it has natural and geographical conditions favorable for fruit culture, he noted, underlining the need to energetically push ahead with the work to turn it into a large-scale modern fruit farm.
    Noting that the appearance of many orchards in different parts of the country since the historic Pukchong Enlarged Meeting of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the WPK has turned the fruit growing into one of the leading fields of agricultural production, he stressed that it is, therefore, necessary to pay due state attention to this field. He underlined the need to satisfactorily produce and supply materials and equipment including machines, herbicide and fertilizers for the development of fruit culture.
    He expressed great expectation and belief that the Kosan Fruit Farm would make a fresh turn in fruit production, noting that it has an important role to play in increasing the fruit supply to the people.