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The material and technical foundations for the sustainable increase in agricultural production were consolidated, a rapid rise in grain production also made and rural communities across the country turned into beautiful villages during the eighth term of the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

All these successes are the brilliant fruition of the WPK’s leadership.

Rural revolution programme in the new era

The Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK held in December 2021 advanced a programme for the rural revolution in the new era for providing a new turning point in the Korean-style development of the socialist countryside.

With a deep insight into the Korean revolutionary practice in which the struggle for the overall development of socialism became a mature requirement and the present situation of the countryside, the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un set forth the rural revolution programme in the new era for translating the Party’s rural construction plan into reality in his historic report at the plenum “Let Us Open up a New Great Era of Our-style Socialist Rural Development”.

The basic aim and main content of the rural revolution programme are to ultimately resolve the questions of farmers and agriculture to completely eliminate the gaps between the working class and farmers and between towns and the countryside and to build an ideal society desired by the people.

Noting that the Party’s goal in socialist rural construction is to model all the rural communities across the country on the Juche idea and make them materially affluent, the General Secretary clarified that the target to be attained in the DPRK’s rural development is to raise the level of ideological awareness of agricultural workers, make rapid growth of agricultural productivity and bring about a fundamental change in the living environment in the countryside.

The rural revolution programme in the new era is a valuable outcome of the painstaking efforts and profound thinking of the General Secretary who puts his heart and soul into adding eternal glory to the exploits of President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il, who devoted their whole lives to developing the countryside to be an ideal socialist one, and into making the Korean people lead the happiest and most affluent and civilized life in the world. According to such a cherished desire, a new history of socialist rural construction began and a new era of comprehensive national rejuvenation has been ushered in.

Rapid growth of agricultural productivity

The eighth term of the Party Central Committee witnessed the remarkable successes and experience clearly distinct from those of the past in agricultural production.

At the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Party Central Committee, the General Secretary said that it is the Party’s view on strategic development to convert the country’s agriculture into an advanced one and achieve stable and sustained growth in agricultural production with science and technology as the major driving force for agricultural development, and clearly indicated the issues arising in consistently maintaining the scientific farming-first principle and the ways to do so.

As a result, modern agricultural science research bases appeared in different parts of the country, the informatization level of agricultural production went up and scientists and researchers enlisted in the teams for promoting scientific farming went out to not only flat areas but also the remote fields in mountainous farms to guide farmers to do scientific farming, while advanced agricultural research findings were widely diffused and introduced even into the lowest units of agricultural production in time.

Farms across the country competitively introduced various advanced farming methods and excellent agricultural sci-tech products including the method of cultivating nutrient cold-bed rice seedlings and an electrical pulse water treatment device. In the course of this, officials and working people in the agricultural sector came to have a completely changed view about scientific farming and hardened their faith and will to overcome the vagaries of the weather on the strength of science.

The great change made in the structure of the country’s grain production by the crucial decision of the Party was a revolution in agricultural production which made a breakthrough in providing the people with affluent and civilized dietary conditions and completely solving the food problem.

In his historic policy speech at the Fifth Session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK, the General Secretary clarified a grand plan he had long elaborated for a switch in crop distribution. He explained it again in more detail at the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Party Central Committee held some months later. He gave detailed instructions on pushing ahead in a planned way with the securing of the cultivation area needed for meeting the national demand for rice and wheat, introducing advanced cultivation methods and actively applying machines to farm work, building grain drying facilities and greatly boosting the wheat processing capacity and establishing an effective nationwide system for providing seeds of high-yielding crops and necessary farming materials.

The Party’s new agricultural policy on changing the structure of grain production and pressing ahead with rice and wheat farming clearly demonstrated its validity and vitality.

As the wheat cultivation area got larger year after year, 2024 witnessed an increase of tens of thousands of hectares as against the previous year and 2025 an increase of more than 30 000 hectares, with the result that lots of local areas and units produced a high yield of wheat. In particular, many workteams harvested an average of over eight tons of wheat per hectare last year.

Each year witnessed the growth in the number of high-yield counties, farms, workteams, sub-workteams and farmers, and agricultural workers held meetings for the settlement of accounts and income distribution against the background of high grain stacks and danced merrily to the tune of farm music.