Manuring of Earlier Crops and Preparations for Harvesting Brisk in DPRK

Pyongyang, May 28 (KCNA) -- Agricultural officials and workers in the DPRK are focusing on manuring earlier crops and making preparations for their harvest.

Officials of the Agricultural Commission and the provincial rural economy committees are taking necessary measures in time, examining in detail whether there would be any slightest defects in manuring of autumn wheat, barley and potatoes in the second half of their growth and the preparations for their harvest.

Agricultural workers in North Phyongan Province are taking sci-tech measures to improve the nutritional care of the earlier crops.

South Phyongan Province is stepping up the work to reduce the loss from drought and other disastrous weather.

Different counties of North Hwanghae Province are making preparations to stimulate the growth of early-season potatoes, prevent damage by insects and moisture and harvest them in time.

Agricultural workers in Sinpho City and Kowon County of South Hamgyong Province promptly tackle the shortcomings likely in grain storage.

Farms in Pyongyang and Nampho cities and other parts of the country are overhauling tractors, harvesters and threshers responsibly. -0-