The number of high-yielding farming units is on a steady increase across the DPRK.

The Phungjong Farm in Jungsan County and the Manhung Farm in Mundok County have scientifically done all farm work, ranging from seed selection to harvesting, while conducting the soil analysis for each plot and field and producing and applying organic fertilizers on that basis, and thus reaped a bumper crop in every plot year by year.

The Namjong Farm under the South Hwanghae Provincial Rural Economy Committee positively introduced advanced farming methods, including the method of growing rice seedlings in greenhouse, and valuable agricultural sci-tech achievements to systematically increase the per-hectare paddy rice yield.

The Naejung Farm in Yomju County established a plot monitoring system to plan and command farming in a scientific way, while seeing on the screen not only the progress of farming operations and the growth of crops in each field in each farming season but also the operation of farm machines. In the rice-transplanting season last year, for example, it controlled and commanded through the plot monitoring system the whole process of works including the pulling up of rice seedlings from seedbeds and their transport and transplanting, thus ensuring its timeliness and quality at a high level.

A good harvest was brought in everywhere across the country in the course of implementing the new agricultural policy of the Workers’ Party of Korea on changing the structure of grain production.

The Jungak Farm in Onchon County produced good results by efficiently pushing ahead with the cultivation of wheat as an earlier crop in paddy fields to suit its actual situation of having fewer dry fields.

The Sinhung Farm in Kangnam County boosted its wheat yield by introducing a method of farming vegetables and wheat simultaneously and the farms in Mangyongdae District of Pyongyang Municipality actively applied advanced farming methods and techniques to increase the yields of the early and late cereal crops every year.

True to the Party’s policy on increasing double-cropping based on grain-to-grain farming, the Honam Farm in Jongphyong County cultivated dry-field rice in some fields as the later crop after wheat and thus ensured full yields.

The Party stressed the need to establish a scientific farming system and method to cope with the disastrous abnormal weather as the agro-meteorological conditions have caused an extremely negative effect on farming in recent years.

The Chaeryon Farm in Phanmun District of Kaesong Municipality, the Sangjung Farm of Yonggwang County and many other units have ensured the safety of agricultural production by regarding the disastrous abnormal weather as a fait accompli and taking positive measures to minimize its effects.

The Chongsan Farm in Kangso District of Nampho Municipality, too, has further increased the per-hectare yield by selecting high-yielding seeds and steadily improving cultivation methods on the basis of a scientific analysis of the climate change of the past and a careful examination of the characteristics of crop varieties.

Many regions and units in different parts of the country have reaped a good harvest, ranging from the farms in the flat areas including South Phyongan Province to the farms in mountainous areas of North Hamgyong and Ryanggang provinces, the northernmost regions of the country.

According to data available, a total of more than 1 400 high-yielding farms, 14 000-odd high-yielding workteams and over 51 000 high-yielding sub-workteams were produced across the country in the past five years.