Big efforts being paid to scientific farming in DPRK

The agricultural field of the DPRK has been pushed to do progress in scientific ambit, as part of the efforts to attain the target of grain production this year, the third year in implementing the five-year strategy for national economic development. Ri Kyong Rok, Vice Department Director of the Ministry of Agriculture, told that the Ministry and provincial, city and county agricultural guidance Organs are directing big efforts to producing good strains of seeds and expanding their cultivation area, while paying deep attention to planting dry-field rice highly resistant to lower temperature and drought in arable lands lack of water or not kind for maize cultivation in order to raise per-hectare yield. Meanwhile, many efforts have been paid to producing high-performance farm machines for potato and livestock farming,  laying a foundation for raising the rate of mechanization in farm work.