Kim Jong Il Gives Field Guidance to Ryongjon Fruit Farm

Pyongyang, October 4 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK, gave field guidance to the Ryongjon Fruit Farm.
After being briefed on the farm before a graph showing its fruit production, he looked round various places of the farm where apple picking is at its height to acquaint himself in detail with the fruit production.
He expressed great satisfaction with the fact that the party members and other working people of the farm created hundreds of hectares of orchards by planting short high yielding apple trees in the plain fields by their own efforts to be widely known throughout the country and now presented such fantastic scenery of trees heavily laden with apples.
After tasting varieties of apples, he said Aeguk-2 and other apples produced on the farm are sweet, fragrant and very juicy. He was very pleased that the farm became able to supply delicious and nutritious fruits to the people.
He said the farm should expand its capacity and cultivate short apple trees in a planned way to make a tree rotation under a long-term plan.
He enjoyed a performance given by the art group of the Pukchong County at the House of Culture of the Ryongjon Fruit Farm.