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The vast stretches of fields of South Hwanghae Province, the biggest agricultural province of the country, are seething with growing enthusiasm for scientific farming.

Mun Jong Won, candidate academician, professor and PhD of the Academy of Agricultural Science, said that hundreds of thousands of agricultural workers have attended the short training courses on scientific farming this year and the growing zeal for scientific farming is shown at every farm in the province.

With the programme of making all people well versed in science and technology being in full swing across the country, the province has taken measures to help agricultural workers prepare themselves to be worthy farmers who are responsible for their jobs.

According to Ryu Chon Il, researcher of the Academy of Agricultural Science, agricultural workers in Paechon County hold a viewpoint that they cannot take even a step forward without learning science and technology and now it has become an old story that they had insisted on such work attitude as empiricism.

All members of workteam No. 2 of the Waryong Farm in Yonan County regularly consolidate what they learned in the short course of science and technology such as the soil fertility, technical requirements in each farming process and data on new agricultural sci-tech products. The workteam leader said that the number of agricultural workers enrolled in the distance education system continues to increase.

Chongdan County built up a splendid county agricultural vocational training school and enhanced its role to help many students get themselves fully ready as masters of scientific farming.

The province also directs efforts to ensuring that all the agricultural units in the province work hard to reap a rich harvest.

An official of the agricultural management committee of Sinchon County in the Jaeryong Plain said that in the past farms which actively introduced advanced farming techniques and methods continued to make steady progress and those units which lagged behind were in a stalemate, but now it has changed completely.

In Unchon County, a variety of scientific measures have been taken such as expanding the area of introduction of nutrient cold seedlings and applying scientific water management methods to ensure that farms, which lagged behind in grain production in the county, join the ranks of high-yield units this year.