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The Central Tree Nursery under the Ministry of Land and Environment Protection, which put sapling production on a scientific, industrial and intensive basis, has produced more than 25 million saplings every year, thus making a tangible contribution to the nationwide forest restoration campaign.

The nursery has improved its appearance as a “pedigree farm” for sapling production and increased the production by proactively introducing advanced technology.

Its officials and employees built four hectares of new outdoor cultivation grounds to produce more saplings.

In the course of expanding their production base, they removed thousands of cubic metres of earth, set up infrastructure and assembled over 2 000 pillars and crossbeams in a three-dimensional way to complete the cultivation ground in a short span of time.

The employees of the cultivation ground ensured temperature, sunlight and humidity in a scientific way to remarkably increase sapling production, while saving manpower, fertilizer and agricultural chemicals.

The nursery has developed into a base not only for sapling production but also for scientific research, which is furnished with an IT lab, introduction technology lab, cultivation management lab, substrate lab and analysis room.

The laboratories actively conduct research to steadily improve the sapling production technology, including the issues of nutrition administration, soil analysis, substrate composition and acclimatization of saplings, thereby contributing to consolidating the technical foundations for the immediate production and developing the country's forestry.

The Central Tree Nursery operates a well-regulated videoconferencing system embracing provincial, city and county tree nurseries to encourage them to positively share, exchange and introduce scientific and technological data and experience needed for sapling production.

With the pride of defending the “arsenal” on the afforestation front, its technicians launched homepage "Hwanggumsan" and set up a large database to promote the dissemination of science and technology through the computer network.

The nursery produces more than 10 million saplings of red larch, purple cherry plum and golden-leaf elm respectively every year and has also achieved successes in research into acclimatizing and widely propagating 50-odd good species of trees.

The saplings of trees produced at the nursery include those for forest planting and urban greening, which grow in the country or were acclimatized there. They have taken root on ideal streets of the people built as flourishing socialist streets like Hwasong and Jonwi streets.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un visited the Central Tree Nursery on November 10 2014 and set forth important tasks to be tackled in afforesting and landscaping the whole country, including the expansion of the sapling production base, perfection of the methods of planting and managing trees suited to the specific conditions of the country and introduction of advanced science and technology.

Officials and employees of the nursery set a higher goal of boosting their success.