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In Mangyongdae District, Pyongyang, agricultural workers reaped a bumper crop of wheat this year.

They positively introduced a new method of wheat transplanting and other advanced farming techniques, thus harvesting over 6 tons of wheat on average per hectare in the wheat fields that increased by nearly 200 hectares as compared to last year and overfulfilling the wheat production plan for the district by 95 percent.

Since the area of wheat fields increased much more than last year, the Mangyongdae District Agricultural Management Committee took timely scientific and technological measures to boost the per-hectare yield and stepped up the effort to introduce and generalize new farming techniques in all farms in the district. In close contact with relevant units including the scientific farming promotion team and Pyongyang University of Agriculture, it examined the actual possibilities of wheat transplantation in a scientific way and organized work and provided technical guidance to that end.

Farmers in the district, who recognized that transplanting is more effective than direct sowing in increasing wheat fields in the farms with a large area of paddy fields, introduced the method of raising seedlings and transplanting them into dozens of hectares of paddy fields.

The Mangyongdae Vegetable Farm selected the right soil and introduced wheat transplanting into a large area. It grew nutritive wheat seedlings in the rice-seedling greenhouse, transplanted them to fields and raised their wintering rate by taking proper draining steps and improving their growth in the early days. In the fields where the wheat seedlings were transplanted, the consumption of seeds decreased to one third of that in direct sowing and the manpower shortage that had been suffered during winter wheat sowing season was solved satisfactorily.

The Kumchon Vegetable Farm carried out wheat seeding in seedbeds in early October, though it had done that at the rice harvest time in the past, and transplanted seedlings in the middle of the month when harvesting and threshing were nearing completion, thus ensuring the full yields of the earlier and later crops.

At the Taephyong Farm and the Wollo Vegetable Farm, the introduction of wheat transplanting resulted in the scientific ensuring of the number of bunches of seedlings per phyong and that of seedlings per bunch, a remarkable improvement in exposure to sunlight and airing condition and a marked increase in the number of grains per ear and the weight of a thousand grains as against those in fields where wheat was directly sowed.

The Chilgol Vegetable Farm carried out land treatment, seed processing and sowing and raising of seedlings in a scientific and technological way, thereby gathering a rich harvest of wheat. The farm increased the proportion of farming operations done by machine, including the rezoning of fields and making of ridges using the combination soil management machines. It carried out leaf fertilizing and ensured the number of leaves before the wintering season and did manuring and cultivation after revival in a scientific and technological way. In order to enhance the resistance of crops to disastrous abnormal weather, it sprayed nutrients on a regular basis, such as phytosine and multi-element mineral fertilizer.

As a result, in this year’s wheat farming Mangyongdae District became a high-yield district and all of its farms high-yield farms, producing 44 high-yield workteams, 130 high-yield sub-workteams and over 770 high-yield farmers.