economy

This year, the method of growing rice seedlings in greenhouse has been introduced in many rural areas including the Paeksong Farm in Sinchon County and farms in Mangyongdae District, Pyongyang.

The Jehyon Farm of the South Phyongan Provincial Rural Economy Committee transplanted rice seedlings cultivated in greenhouses in dozens of hectares of paddy fields last year. On the basis of this experience, it more than doubled the area of its application this year. It newly built more greenhouses and provided them with conditions for rotary cultivation of rice seedlings. And they successfully carried out seed sowing and directed efforts to growing rice seedlings in a scientific and technological way.

The farm put great effort into enhancing the practical effect of passing-on-technique sessions and technical study and informed the farmers of the experience gained in the course of growing rice seedlings in greenhouse last year.

Greenhouses for cultivating rice-seedlings were also built at farms in Mangyongdae District.

They mechanized the processes of spreading soil mixed with fertilizer over the seedbeds, sowing seeds and covering them up with soil to reduce much labour which was needed for sowing in the past and nearly halved the period from sowing to transplanting. As a result, they have no process of removing young plants from rice seedbeds and it has created a favourable condition for rice transplanting in the right time.

The Oguk Farm in Anak County also raised rice seedlings at the newly-built greenhouses.

Shortly ago, there took place a Pyongyang municipal pass-on-technique conference and demonstration in Kangnam County in an effort to do rice-transplanting in the right time and in a qualitative way.

The demonstration showed the manuring and cultivation of rice in the rice-seedling cultivation greenhouse newly built in Kangnam County and various other facilities, and the facilities for fish farming in paddy fields built at the Tanggok Farm.