Politics

Premier Kim Tok Hun, who is also member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and vice-president of the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, made field survey of the agricultural and food administration sectors in South and North Phyongan provinces.

Inspecting several farms in Anju City and Sukchon and Mundok counties of South Phyongan Province and Pakchon County of North Phyongan Province, he gave a pep talk to the agricultural workers striving to successfully conclude this year's farming.

He learned in detail about this year's grain production and the immediate threshing, urging the officials to scrupulously direct all the farm work step by step with redoubled efforts and a high sense of responsibility at the important time of concluding a year's farming.

At the Jongju Chicken Institute under the Academy of Poultry, he underlined the need to keep in mind the Party's noble intention to supply the people with greater amount of tasty and nutritious meat and eggs, to set and carry out a realistic stepwise goal of breeding chicken in line with the trend of the development of poultry farming and to direct efforts to raising various breeds.

At some food supply stations and grain stores in South Phyongan Province, he called for steadily improving the supply of food and the sale of grain in keeping with the requirements of the state cereals policy.

Field consultative meetings were held to discuss the future tasks and take relevant steps. They included the issues of stepping up the threshing in a qualitative way in time by mobilizing manpower and means in a rational way and making preparations for next year's farming in a substantial way, intensifying the research into a better system of keeping pure breeds in poultry farming and making the most of the successes made in food administration and generalizing good experience.