economy

Scientific research units in the DPRK concentrate their efforts on major projects for economic development.

The State Academy of Sciences directs all efforts to solving urgent problems arising in developing science and technology and the economy of the country.

In particular, it has mobilized all research forces and means to solve the energy problem.

Scientists of the Paper Technology Institute, who made a great contribution to the development of the country’s paper industry, have kept researching on the spot with a single mind to further perfect the Korean-style method and technique of making paper by relying on local raw materials.

Other scientists of the academy have made steady preparations for expanding the success made in developing a Korean-style pressurized airflow fine coal gasification technology to the next stage.

Officials and scientists in the agricultural sector also conduct an intensive scientific research campaign to increase grain production during the period of the new five-year plan.

Hundreds of members of the scientific farming promotion teams are now active in different parts of the country.

They intensify scientific guidance for this year’s farming while increasing the regeneration rate of wheat and barley.

The Academy of Agricultural Science is engrossed in research to breed the varieties that will ensure high and stable yields despite unfavourable weather conditions and to develop labour- and cost-saving agricultural sci-tech products.

And as the production of the seed-coating agent “Phungnyonmo No. 1” and the fertilizer effective in land improvement has been finished, the academy is pushing ahead with the work for sending the products to farms without delay.

Scientists of the Academy of Light Industry under the Ministry of Light Industry conduct research in the projects for developing light industry.

Many other scientific research units have concentrated their research forces on major fronts for the economic development of the country, the implementation of the regional development policy and the improvement of the people’s material and cultural life, thus solving sci-tech problems arising there.