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A seminar took place at the Academy of Agricultural Science on February 28 under the sponsorship of the Korean Agricultural Technology Association of the Central Committee of the General Federation of Science and Technology of Korea. It was aimed at growing healthy rice seedlings through the application of advanced ways of disinfecting rice seeds and cultivating seedlings.

Present there were scientists, technicians, lecturers and others from over 20 units including Kim Il Sung University, Sinuiju University of Agriculture, Wonsan University of Agriculture, the Academy of Agricultural Science and the Kangwon Provincial Institute of Agricultural Science.

The seminar discussed the ways of growing rice seedlings with the seed-coating material "Phungnyonmo-1" and of exterminating nematode disease and foot rot of rice at once and others.