KCNA Report on Rapid Development of Agriculture

 Pyongyang, December 6 (KCNA) -- The Korean Central News Agency released a report on Friday, detailing the successes in consolidating the material and technical foundations of agriculture and rapidly increasing the grain production after the declaration of the programme for the rural revolution in the new era.
All the officials, Party members and other working people, who turned out in the grand campaign for creation true to the programme for the rural revolution in the new era, made remarkable progress in irrigation construction, including the completion of paddy field irrigation projects covering more than 500 000 hectares which was planned by the Workers' Party of Korea, successfully attained the annual goal according to the plan for the development of farm machines and turned over 13 500 hectares of dry fields into paddy fields, the report said, and went on:
The Party's policy on pushing ahead with rice and wheat farming by boldly changing the structure of agricultural production has been implemented. As a result, scientific farming methods and their solid foundation have been established and the experience has been gained in revitalizing wheat production and the area under wheat cultivation has been increased by more than 30 000 hectares this year alone as against last year.
Amid the hot wind of scientific farming and high-yielding emulation, many more cities, counties, farms, workteams, sub-workteams and farmers have reported bumper harvests to increase the grain production, leading to over-fulfillment of the annual state grain production plans.
The historic Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the WPK, which set forth the programme for the rural revolution in the new era, marked a turning point in developing the country's agriculture onto a stage of definite upswing by stepping up the rural rejuvenation and providing a milestone for victory for the rapid development of Korean-style socialist countryside.
Whenever the plenary meetings of the WPK Central Committee were convened, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un set forth the tasks and ways for steadily increasing the agricultural production of the country and took decisive measures to enlist the entire Party, the whole country and all the people to turn out in the campaign to give full manpower and material support to the countryside.
The material and technical foundations of agriculture have been further strengthened amid the intensified drive to implement the Party's programme for the rural revolution in the new era.
A nationwide struggle was waged to repair, reinforce and further perfect the irrigation system of the country.
In 2023, the first year when irrigation construction started at full speed, irrigation projects for more than 200 000 hectares of fields were successfully completed, including the construction and capacity expansion of groundwater facilities in more than 12 000 places, the construction of over 3 000 pumping stations and the laying of over 2 400 km of pipelines.
In 2024, irrigation facilities for over 60 000 hectares of fields were renovated in the drought-stricken areas to provide a guarantee for high and safe yields despite drought and high temperature.
Officials, working people and builders across the country completed the construction or the repair of over 1 300 pumping stations, the building or the overhaul of over 1 100 irrigation structures and the repair of over 17 000 kilometers of waterways and thus completing irrigation projects for more than 160 000 hectares of paddy fields and turning over 3 300 hectares of dry fields into paddy fields this year alone.
The work to radically increase the proportion of farm work done by machines was conducted to achieve unprecedented successes in realizing the comprehensive mechanization of agriculture.
The farm machine production units which have been modernized under the care of the Party have increased production.
With the expansion of successes since the first year of implementing the programme for the rural revolution in the new era, nearly 43 000 farm machines were secured in 2023 and the varieties of farm machines increased considerably last year, too.
This year alone, the varieties of farm machines have increased to more than 50 kinds and the proportion of farm work done by machines increased by more than 2 percent over the previous year.
Officials and working people in the agricultural sector turned out as one in attaining the grain production goal set by the Party.
Agricultural guidance organs at all levels have designed and carried out farming operations and guidance according to all farming processes in a scientific way.
The scientific farming promotion team has strengthened its role to support increased grain production by dint of science and technology.
A vigorous struggle was waged in different parts of the country to expand the area under wheat cultivation and raise its productivity.
Amid the deep interest and great enthusiasm of the whole country and society for wheat farming, the area under wheat cultivation has more than doubled in the past four years.
With the structure of grain production and farming methods changing and wheat production growing rapidly, many farms produced high yields in 2023, and in 2024 the national wheat production plan was over-fulfilled by more than 140 percent and more than 100 farms produced over 6 tons of wheat per hectare.
This year, 11 farms and over 170 workteams have produced more than 8 tons of grain per hectare on an average thanks to the efforts of agricultural officials and working people to harvest high yields in the farming of early crops this year.
The state grain production plan has been over-fulfilled since 2023 thanks to the struggle of the officials and working people in the agricultural sector who have turned out in attaining the goal of grain production.
In 2024, hundreds of thousands of tons of grain were produced more across the country as against 2023 as a result of the campaign for simultaneous and balanced development of all the regions and farms.
The proportion of the introduction of nutritive cold-bed seedlings has increased considerably throughout the country and advanced farming methods have been widely applied, leading to increased grain production.
In hearty response to the Party's policy, a struggle was waged across the country to introduce the method of organic farming through fish farming.
Thanks to the great vitality of the new agricultural policy of the WPK, more than 30 high-yield cities and counties were produced this year and many other units became high-yield farms, high-yield workteams and high-yield sub-workteams.
The news of the bumper harvest and year-end account settlement and income distribution in the socialist rural areas good to live and work in along with the new era of rural rejuvenation, is adding to the pleasure of the people across the country.
The stable agricultural foundation of the country which are steadily developing day by day and the increased grain production have convinced officials and working people once again that the Party's policy is science, truth and victory and that everything will go well if they follow only the Party's policy. -0-