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A passing-on-technique session was held at the Samjigang Farm in Jaeryong County of South Hwanghae Province on August 7-8 to widely generalize the method of fish farming in paddy fields.

Present there were Ri Chol Man, vice-premier of the Cabinet and chairman of the Agricultural Commission, officials concerned and technicians in Pyongyang and the regional areas.

Introduced at the session was the experience gained in catfish farming in paddy fields at the supply base of a unit of the Korean People's Army which presented a practical model in introducing organic farming through fish farming.

The session dealt with scientific and technological problems arising in the selection of the right paddy fields for catfish farming in paddy fields, the infrastructure, catfish breeding and breeding fish production.

The explanation that the right paddy fields were selected after taking into account the source and quality of water, irrigation and drainage conditions and soil characteristics, the depth and width of fish ways were set in a scientific way and the utility rate of land was increased by planting earlier crops attracted the participants’ attention.

Also mentioned there were the issues arising in selecting the density of fish per hectare and one cubic metre of water and reasonable varieties of rice, setting the number of plants per phyong, mechanizing the harvest and selecting the place of drainage outlet in accordance with scientific principles.

Meanwhile, the participants went round the paddy-field catfish breeding plots and the floating feed production equipment and Hermetia illucens habitat at the Samjigang Farm in Jaeryong County.