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A great change brought about in the rural areas by the programme for a rural revolution in the new era is one of the greatest feats achieved by the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

Solving the rural problem properly is a strategic issue which should be settled without fail in the whole course of building socialism and communism.

Therefore, the WPK clarified the programme for the rural revolution in the new era at the historic Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Party Central Committee.

The programme sets it as the main task to get all agricultural workers ready to be rural revolutionaries, achieve the sustainable growth of agricultural production and transform the appearance and environment of the countryside by powerfully expediting the three revolutions.

It includes the issues of turning agricultural workers into communists fully armed with the Juche idea, powerfully spurring the revolution in seed selection and establishing the scientific farming system and method to cope with disastrous abnormal climate, changing the grain production structure of the country, pushing ahead with the rice and wheat farming, increasing the per-hectare yield and, especially, doing well farming in low-yielding fields, providing rural residents with excellent living environment in which they can live with nothing to envy in the world by building all farm villages across the country on socialist lines while preserving the features peculiar to relevant areas and others, and illuminates the way to turn all rural areas of the country into a socialist paradise and hasten the comprehensive rejuvenation of socialism.

The WPK has persistently forged ahead with projects for implementing the rural revolution programme in the new era over the past five years.

The agricultural workers showed remarkably growing enthusiasm for production and the structure of grain production of the country was definitely changed into the one focusing on rice and wheat farming.

The irrigation project to perfect the country’s irrigation system was set as its top-priority task and undertaken with a blitz, with the result that the irrigation system was perfected in hundreds of thousands of hectares of paddy and dry fields and the desalination project of Lagoon Kangnyong and the Chongchon River-Phyongnam irrigation waterway and Hwangju Kindung waterway projects were completed, providing a solid guarantee for the farms, which had been seriously affected by water shortage every year, to overcome the whims of the weather and steadily produce high grain yield.

A scientific guidance and management system for agricultural production was established across the country and up-to-date information technologies were widely introduced into it.

Many agricultural science research units were renovated, agricultural production was put on a more scientific, IT and intensive basis and agricultural workers became eager to apply advanced farming methods and agricultural sci-tech products.

In addition, lots of farm machine production units were upgraded and modernized and the proportion of farm work done by machines grew markedly.

With the large-scale construction projects of farmhouses having been undertaken nationwide, modern houses for more than 113 000 families were newly built in over 1 860 rural villages at 500-odd farms across the country in the past four years and agricultural workers celebrated the happy events of moving into new houses all the year round.