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The teams for promoting scientific farming play a big part in the growth of agricultural production in the DPRK.

These well-organized teams set up from the capital to farms were formed on the initiative of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

General Secretary Kim Jong Un, with a deep insight into the importance of the role of scientific farming in boosting agricultural production, took a measure to organize the teams for promoting scientific farming which intensify guidance over scientific farming and command the work for the production and supply of advanced agricultural sci-tech products for farms in a unified way at the Seventh Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Party Central Committee.

The teams were urgently formed with senior officials of the Party Central Committee and the Cabinet and officials, scientists and researchers of many units such as the Agricultural Commission, different ministries and national agencies, the Academy of Agricultural Science, the State Academy of Sciences, other scientific research institutes, Kim Il Sung University, Kim Chaek University of Technology and agricultural universities and colleges in each province and immediately dispatched to all parts of the country.

The teams ensured that seeds of high grade were introduced to suit the local features and all farming processes were carried out in a substantial way in line with scientific principles, thereby further raising the scientific level of agricultural production.

In those days, all workteams and sub-workteams produced high yields at the Yoltusamchon Farm in Sukchon County, South Phyongan Province, and many farms which had lagged behind others in production in the province increased grain production by an average of over one ton per hectare.

A regenerative rice culture technique was applied to the rice paddies in North Phyongan Province, which suffered severe flood damage and where harvest could not be expected, with the result that they produced high outputs.

An efficient system has been established for the teams to spread and diffuse advanced science and technology and knowledge from the capital to every farm, which makes it possible to strengthen sci-tech guidance and assistance for the whole process of farming in every way.

They employ various methods including intensive training courses and passing-on-technique meetings to diffuse advanced agricultural science and technology among agricultural workers one after another and improve the level of agricultural informatization, thereby ensuring smoothness and promptness in the spread and use of sci-tech data.

Last year alone, more than 30 000 rounds of demonstrations, technical lectures and passing-on-technique meetings were arranged across the country to spread advanced agricultural sci-tech achievements and, through them, farmers keenly realized the advantages of scientific farming. And over 40 000 copies of agricultural sci-tech books and data on farming techniques, including the manual on insects harmful to major grain crops, were published and circulated. In addition, through the agricultural sci-tech service app “Hwanggumyolmae”, dozens of reference materials on agricultural science and technology including the cultivation technique for reaping a good harvest of wheat were diffused and answers were given in time to thousands of sci-tech problems raised by farms. 

The teams have also made sure that the development, production and application of advanced agricultural sci-tech products are integrated and all those products are rapidly supplied in a mobile way and in the right farming season.

Last year, production processes of various such products were further expanded and reinforced and efficient devices for improving the growth of crops were introduced to large numbers of farms across the country, which brought about progress in the improvement of fertility of paddy and non-paddy fields and the ripening rate of crops.

The teams are now making proactive efforts for the preparations for this year’s farming.