As the Workers’ Party of Korea’s programme for effecting a rural revolution in the new era proceeds in earnest, a nationwide campaign was launched to further improve the country’s irrigation system.
At present, well over 500 000 hectares of rice fields have been brought under irrigation, and more than 13 500 hectares of dry fields turned into paddy fields.
Irrigation efforts gathered momentum with positive measures taken to restore and readjust the existing irrigation facilities and expand the area under irrigation.
Over three years hundreds of thousands of hectares of paddy fields have been irrigated, making an important step in the efforts to complete the irrigation system of the rural economy.
In 2023, when the irrigation construction was kickstarted, more than 200 000 hectares of paddy and dry fields were put under the irrigation system after groundwater facilities were built and expanded in some 12 000 places, at least 3 000 pumping stations were newly set up, and over 2 400 kilometres of pipelines were laid.
In 2024, irrigation facilities were renovated to water 60 000-odd-hectare dry fields, most of which were prone to drought.
This year, over 160 000 hectares of paddy fields have been brought under irrigation and more than 3 300 hectares of dry fields turned into paddy ones in different parts of the country, with over 1 300 pumping stations built and repaired, irrigation structures built and overhauled in 1 100-odd places and 17 000-odd-kilometre waterways repaired.
Thousands of hectares of fields in the Kangnyong and Ongjin areas can benefit from the completion of the project for desalting Lake Kangnyong.
Those farms in the Miru Plain and Hwangju County conducted the Miru Plain waterway repair work and built the Hwangju Kindung waterway.
The Chongchon River-Phyongnam irrigation waterway was built, the Kaechon-Lake Thaesong waterway and the Phyongnam irrigation waterway were overhauled, and dykes were reinforced.
North Phyongan Province repaired and expanded tens of kilometres of waterway and built irrigation structures in scores of places. It also repaired the irrigation waterway to lay a solid foundation for ensuring stable rice farming on the reclaimed Honggondo tideland.
More than 20 farms in Kumya County of South Hamgyong Province increased per-hectare yields thanks to the renovated irrigation system.
Kim Hyon
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