Kim Jong Un Inspects Junghung Farm in Samjiyon County

Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State
Affairs Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and supreme
commander of the Korean People's Army, gave field guidance to the Junghung
Farm in Samjiyon County.

He went round a potato plot under the workteam 1 of the farm.

Noting that potato blight and flood damage have an impact on potato harvest in
July every year, he asked how it is this year. He underscored the need for the
agricultural field to take thoroughgoing measures of agricultural technique to
prevent damage by low temperature and blight, the most knotty problem in potato
farming in northern alpine area.

He said that the agronomists and persons in charge of plots should enhance their
responsibility and role so as to intensify prediction and forecast of potato blight
and that a strict step should be taken to secure agricultural chemicals and
immediately and intensively spray them upon potato plants in sickness.

He stressed the need to direct efforts to stockbreeding to establish the food
production cycle of agriculture and animal husbandry, increase the fertility of soil
of potato fields and conduct in a scientific and technical way the manuring and
cultivation of potato fields including weeding, earthing up, fertilizing and
extermination of harmful insects.

Looking round farm machines and tractors of the workteam, he acquainted
himself with how many tractors it has and how it operates them.

Saying what he wanted to know with utmost care is the proportion and level of
mechanization of potato farming, he noted that the level of the comprehensive
mechanization of the farm should be raised decisively. He pointed out that the

agricultural sector sets a good example for mechanization with the farm machines
secured more than 20 years ago. Comprehensive mechanization should be
realized with modern and efficient farm machines in line with the requirements of
the steadily changing and developing reality and farm officials should add to their
knowledge to know well the global trend of the development of farm machines
and boldly set aim high, he added.

He said that if they take into full account how many and what kinds of farm
machines are needed to do all of the farm work with the help of machines without
hesitation and inform the Party of it, it will work hard to carry it into reality and
that it is the Party's firm determination to first build the farm into an exemplary
unit for modernization of farm machines and, on this basis, turn Samjiyon County
and its farms into the standard unit of our country whose comprehensive
mechanization is realized perfectly on a high level and a farm of comprehensive
mechanization where farmers' ideal has come true.

Then he went to a storehouse of seed potatoes.

Appreciating the introduction of the automatic control system of environment
which makes it possible to put the store of seed potatoes on a scientific basis by
automatically measuring and controlling temperature, humidity and concentration
of carbonic acid gas in the storehouse, he underlined the need to increase the
capacity by properly estimating the quantity of seeds to meet the increased
potato fields.

Now that seed is essential for potato farming it is necessary to establish an
integral system of producing and keeping seed potatoes and put seed selection on
a scientific and technical basis, he said.

It is necessary to breed and introduce per-hectare high-yielding potato species
and to select and introduce species of potato fit for food as the Potato Farina
Production Factory has been built, he said, adding: All the farms should not plant
some high-yielding species only, thinking of productivity, but introduce various
species good to taste and ensure the quality of processed potato foods in
production and thus raise the quality of potato production.

Going round the farm, he set forth the plan and direction for sprucing up the
seat village in Junghung-ri, Samjiyon County.

He underscored the need to first remodel the units associated with leadership
exploits of President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il such as the Junghung
Farm visited by them several times and then, on the basis of the experience,
gradually change all the farms in the county, noting that the county shouldn't cling
to only the remodeling of the township but propel it with the work to remodel the
farm villages on a full scale.

He said that the Party would actively help build the Junghung Farm into a
standard unit of village development, and gave an instruction on properly
estimating and reporting the necessary materials and labor.

This meaningful year seeing the lapse of 20 years since the Party advanced the
policy of bringing about a radical turn in potato farming, we have to realize

without fail the wishes of Kim Jong Il, who was so anxious about the issue of
potato farming in Ryanggang Province, by producing a high yield of potato in the
native land of Kim Jong Il, he said.

Accompanying him were Hwang Pyong So, Jo Yong Won and Kim Yong Su,
senior officials of the C.C., WPK.