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Farms across the DPRK are concentrating their efforts on manuring and cultivating earlier wheat and barley, while making preparations for their harvest.

Unnyul, Anak and Paechon counties in South Hwanghae Province have applied farming methods suited to the characteristics of varieties and their growth in all the fields and plots in order to improve the nutrition of the crops and ripen them more quickly.

Agricultural workers in Ryokpho, Mangyongdae and Sadong districts of Pyongyang Municipality are responsibly manuring and tending wheat and barley to create the conditions favourable for their growth. And they are weeding the fields completely, while applying various germicides and insecticides, in order to prevent adverse effects on the yields.

Farms in Songnim City and Hwangju and Rinsan counties of North Hwanghae Province are ensuring proper soil moisture by deeply digging drainage ditches around the fields in order to prevent the wheat and barley, which were planted in paddy fields along with the start of rice transplanting, from being damaged by moisture. And they are giving precedence to the work of harvesting the ripe grains.

Wonsan and Munchon cities and Thongchon County in Kangwon Province and Sukchon, Mundok and Phyongwon counties in South Phyongan Province inform farmers of the kinds of harmful insects and the methods of exterminating them and make sure that the harmful insect observers display a high sense of responsibility.

South Hamgyong Province, Nampho Municipality and other areas are repairing grain drying grounds, paving threshing grounds and maintaining all kinds of farm machines while directing efforts to cultivating wheat and barley.