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Todays Nork Farm Report
2005-06-17
Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- Leader Kim Jong Il sent thanks to all the agricultural workers who have successfully carried out the spring farm work and to the servicepersons, blue-collar and white-collar workers, students and dependent family members who have assisted agriculture materially and morally through a general turnout in supporting farms. The Workers' Party of Korea set the agricultural front as the main front in socialist economic construction this year and called upon the whole Party, state and people to render labor and material assistance to the rural districts, focusing and mobilizing all efforts in doing good farming.
The agricultural officials and workers had made substantial preparations for farming from the outset of the year, true to the Party's policy of agricultural revolution. The weather was unfavorable and a lot of things fell short of the need, but they successfully ensured the farm work including the growing of rice seedlings and transplanting as required by the Juche-based farming method.
The servicepersons, blue-collar and white-collar workers, students and dependent family members who turned out in response to the Party's order call for general mobilization in rice-transplanting rendered sincere assistance in farming, thus making a significant contribution to the completion of rice-transplanting in the most suitable time in the main areas across the country and the qualitative progress of overall farming in good time.
The agricultural workers and supporters to the rural districts all over the country once again demonstrated the true advantages of the Korean socialist system by displaying a high degree of beautiful traits of collectivism in the Songun era in the period of the farming campaign.
The proud successes registered in spring farming this year are a precious fruition of the wise leadership of the WPK. And they are manifestation of the steadfast spirit of devotedly defending the leader and the spirit of devotedly carrying through his policy displayed by the army and people who remain loyal to the Songun idea and leadership of Kim Jong Il and noble patriotism of all the agricultural workers and supporters determined to bring an autumn of bountiful crops to the country without fail.
And this is a demonstration of the might of the single-minded unity of the army and people of the DPRK who rise up like a mountain at the call of the Party and successfully fulfill its appeal, ready to go through fire and water, and convincing proof of the validity and vitality of the Party's policy in setting the agricultural front as the main front of socialist economic construction this year.

Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- Ambassador Ruben Perez Valdes and officials of the Cuban embassy here helped the DPRK-Cuba Friendship Hwasong Co-operative Farm in Ryongsong District, Pyongyang, in field work on June 15. While looking round the history room, the visitors were briefed on the farm which was associated with the leadership exploits of President Kim Il Sung and then weeded maize fields together with farmers who were hastening the immediate farm work.
Finally, some one with experience in sucessful collective farming, oh, wait...
At the break they conversed and sang songs with farmers, deepening friendly feelings. The ambassador said the friendly relations between the two countries were growing stronger day by day under the deep care of Fidel Castro Ruz and leader Kim Jong Il. He wished the farmers sizable fruits in agricultural production this year.
"Good luck, you'll need it"


Pyongyang, June 16 (KCNA) -- Great efforts have been channeled into the land management in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Kim Kwang Ju, a section chief of the Central Forestry Designing and Technology Institute under the Ministry of Land and Environment Conservation, was interviewed by KCNA on the occasion of the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought which falls on June 17.
Damm, I meant to send a card
He said: Today the content to combat desertification comprises not only the dry areas but also all the lands degenerated by forest destruction. Land management has been raised as a pressing issue in the DPRK, a mountainous country which has limited arable land, no more than 17 percent of the territory, and thick population. In particular, the climate changes by abnormal high temperature phenomenon on the globe have brought about natural disasters such as landslide, flood, submersion and drought to the DPRK, too. For the recent ten-odd years, the country has had more than 1.5 million hectares of forest and not a small acreage of cultivated lands destructed or degenerated.
They're losing what little farm land they had
The DPRK government has formulated policies to manage land well and to make an effective use of it. And the sustained land management is guaranteed in the DPRK by various laws including the land law, environment protection law, land designing law, forest law and water resources law.
It has set up months of general mobilization for land management every spring and autumn to arouse all the people in the land management campaign such as afforestation, river improvement and land rezoning. As a result, over 130,000 hectares of forest have been created and hundreds of kilometers of rivers and streams improved every year.
The land rezoning projects have been undertaken according to annual plans as a state affair, with the result that some 293,700 hectares of paddy and non-paddy fields have been turned into large standardized fields and the arable land expanded over the last 7 years.
Taking small working farms and converting them into large collective farms. Nice move, blockheads
For a few years following the completion of the Kaechon-Lake Thaesong Waterway Project, gravity-fed channels extending 280-odd kilometers have been built, creating a safer environment for agricultural production. Along with this, the work for putting the management and utilization of land resources on a scientific and IT basis has been undertaken. Regular work for analyzing soil of each plot and surveying land erosion is carried on throughout the country once with an interval of 4-5 years.
The DPRK, a member nation of the Convention to Combat Desertification, will strengthen the international cooperation in the efforts to realize the sustained land management, Kim Kwang Ju stressed.
Posted by:Steve

#6  So, what's the appropriate present on World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought? A 5 lb box of Miracle Gro?
Posted by: Desert Blondie   2005-06-17 18:21  

#5  The price of pork bellys was unchanged of the Priyprongyong market on trades of 0.

Feeder pigs are lower and faster and a tad frightened.

Mean while American maize went for 3.45 a megaton delivered. There were no trades.

Cocoa futures were unchanged, we still can't figure out Cocoa.... is it drug or what?
Posted by: Kim Chee the Genius Trader of the North   2005-06-17 18:03  

#4  "At the break they conversed and sang songs with farmers, deepening friendly feelings. The ambassador said the friendly relations between the two countries were growing stronger day by day under the deep care of Fidel Castro Ruz and leader Kim Jong Il."

I think I'm going to cry - that's so sweet. *sniff*

"He wished the farmers sizable fruits in agricultural production this year."

And I wish their leader sizeable hemorrhoids every day.
Posted by: Xbalanke   2005-06-17 17:50  

#3  Hoo boy! Looks like we're gonna have a bumper crop of bark this year!
Posted by: Dreadnought   2005-06-17 15:58  

#2  So this means that nobody has to send them any food this year right?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2005-06-17 15:39  

#1  Juche-based farming method
and
World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought

Somehow I think these are related, and not in the way the Glorious Leader would have us all think.
Posted by: Laurence of the Rats   2005-06-17 15:31  

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