Politics

Pak Thae Song, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and premier of the DPRK Cabinet, made a field survey of the agricultural sector in South Hwanghae Province.

Going round agricultural production units in Jaeryong, Sinchon, Pyoksong, Kangnyong, Chongdan and other counties, the premier learned in detail about the immediate farming, giving pep-talks to the agricultural workers who are making full preparations for farming to attain this year's grain production goal set forth by the WPK.

In order to make South Hwanghae Province, a granary of the country, play an important role in the state's grain yield, all officials should actively introduce advanced farming methods, regarding scientific farming as the lifeline, and give detailed guidance over the overall farming and the fulfillment of plan according to farming season, displaying strong executive ability, he stressed.

He called for taking a timely measure to supply farming materials to the areas with unfavourable farming conditions, scrupulously organizing and conducting the work to cope with disastrous abnormal weather in a foresighted way and manuring and cultivating the preceding crops of wheat and barley in a proper way according to their growth conditions so as to reap rich harvests of early crops first.

Going round irrigation facilities in the province and the Paechon County Farm Machine Station, he stressed the need to direct primary efforts into the maintenance and repair of drainage canals and waterway structures and the normal operation of water pumps and other equipment and conduct a brisk technical innovation movement to decisively improve the quality of parts necessary for the making and repair of different kinds of farm implements.

The field consultative meetings discussed the issue for relevant units to supply farming materials to South Hwanghae Province in time, the issue of intensifying the research for improving tideland farming, and the issue of increasing the per-hectare yield by properly conducting the work for sharing and disseminating the experience of high-yielding units, and took appropriate steps.

The premier also inspected the wheat processing factory newly built in Kangnyong County to learn about its construction, the operation of equipment and the supply of raw materials, calling for making full preparations for its inauguration.