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Different parts of the country have secured sufficient irrigation water needed for the immediate spring farming process.

South Hwanghae Province, which takes a big share in the agricultural production of the country, repaired groundwater tapping facilities in a short period and took practical measures to find out all water resources and use them for agricultural production, while filling reservoirs with snowmelt, river water and rainwater.

Based on a detailed survey of the conditions of pumping facilities, it took measures to operate the counter-current pumps at full capacity, thus filling reservoirs with tens of millions of cubic metres of water.

North Phyongan Province has overfulfilled its paddy irrigation plan by 20 percent by controlling reservoir water in a scientific way.

As it has secured millions of cubic metres of water in auxiliary reservoirs this year, it has provided a guarantee for sufficiently irrigating large areas of fields including rice seedbeds and carrying out rice transplanting in a qualitative way at the right time.

North Hwanghae Province dug a sufficient number of wells, tube-wells and pools to suit the regional features and conditions and repaired irrigation facilities and structures and reservoirs.

While drawing water into paddy fields, Pyongyang Municipality took technical measures to increase the irrigation capacity after grasping the specific situation of small reservoirs and carried out the dredging more than 380 kilometres of section of main waterways in a short time.

North and South Hamgyong and other provinces also put big efforts to securing water needed for farming while repairing the embankments of waterways in a qualitative way.