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The Ryongsong District Forestry Management Station is a unit taking the lead in forest restoration in Pyongyang.

The station provided solid material and technical foundations for sapling production including the parent tree nursery and plastic panel greenhouse covering several hectares.

Relying on a well-regulated sapling production system, it is conducting seed treatment, germination and sowing and time selection in a scientific way.

The introduction of rooting stimulants, synthetic plant vitamins and indigenous microorganism-based fermentation fertilizer has promoted the growth of saplings and improved their resistance to diseases so as to increase their rooting rate.

"In particular, the synthetic plant vitamins supply enough nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and other nutrients to make every leaf green and lustrous," said an official of the station.

The products are reliably ensuring the double cultivation of tree saplings in the greenhouse. The station is channelling great efforts into the environmental management of the tree nursery and making it automated.

Besides, it is directing efforts to the manufacture and introduction of powerless water lifting pump, universal planter and other equipment.

Meanwhile, it is effectively operating the sci-tech learning space in order to make all employees have a wide range of knowledge on afforestation and protection.

In particular, Jo Kwang Ryol, a sci-tech disseminator who is called “our teacher”, explains in a plain language the questions of manuring and tending saplings raised by forest rangers and tree nurses.

Thanks to the efforts of its employees, saplings of good tree species are growing healthily at the parent and other tree nurseries built at every branch station, and mountains in Ryongsong District are getting greener with each passing day.