economy

South Hamgyong Province renders positive material and moral assistance to the socialist countryside.

Officials of the province and its cities and counties organized exhibitions of medium and small farm implements and pushed ahead with the organizational and political work to send more farm implements to the countryside.

Officials, workers and technicians at the Hungnam Fertilizer Complex, the Ryongsong Machine Complex and the February 8 Vinalon Complex manufactured equipment necessary for ploughing paddy and non-paddy fields and for transport and put them on display at exhibitions.

The provincial power transmission and distribution station, the provincial foreign trade management bureau, the provincial communication management bureau and other units secured useful and easy-to-handle farm implements.

Farm implements and farming materials provided by workers of the Hamhung Youth Electric Appliances Factory and the Hamhung Knitwear Factory and inhabitants in Songchongang, Hoesang and Sapho districts of th city of Hamhung drew the attention of visitors.

The city of Tanchon and Sinhung, Hamju, Kumya, Pujon and Hochon counties, too, made many farm implements by themselves.

An exhibition of medium and small farm implements took place at Hamhung Square on February 19.

Ri Jong Nam, chief secretary of the South Hamgyong Provincial Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, and officials in the province looked round the venue of the exhibition.