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In Kangdong County in the suburbs of the capital city of the DPRK, there is the Songgum Livestock Farm under the Kangdong County Rural Economy Committee of Pyongyang Municipality.

Until some years ago, what could be seen in Songgum, a mountainous area far away from the county town, were only hills, meadows and houses lying scattered sporadically.

But it underwent a change beyond recognition three years ago.

It still strikes visitors with admiration.

The livestock farm looks like a picture as it has modern houses standing in rows along the foot of a picturesque mountain, neighbourhood-serving amenities, indoor breeding grounds, a dairy food production workteam and others.

Each building was built so distinctively that anyone can say at once what the building is without seeing its sign, and the whole farm goes well with the surrounding environment, evoking unusual emotions.

Most eye-catching are a nursery and kindergarten reminiscent of a fairytale world and a nice school, whose educational conditions and environment are all as good as those of urban ones.

The clinic equipped with the telemedicine system can take medical measures in time for patients with any kinds of diseases, and there are a nice bathhouse, barber shop, beauty salon and soft drink stand.

According to Won Yu Gyong, manager of the farm, the farm village was splendidly built and all the villagers were provided with new houses free of charge thanks to the state measures.

The farm established a system of comprehensively grasping and managing production at all workteams and has a sci-tech learning space, where farmers can acquire advanced scientific and technological knowledge to their heart’s content, and a research room for solving sci-tech problems arising in the farm.

The indoor breeding grounds use an integrated control system to automatically control feed supply, temperature and humidity by computers, while the assorted feed production workteam produces and supplies assorted feed and nutritious feed additives by itself.

The milk-processing process, the last and most important one at the stockbreeding base, is equipped with modern facilities capable of mass-producing a variety of dairy products including milk powder, butter and cheese.

"After the Third Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea adopted the childcare policy on supplying nutritious foods including dairy products to the children at nurseries and kindergartens across the country at state expense, our farm was newly built as part of the efforts to implement the policy," said the manager. “The transformation of the farm has brought about a great change in the life of the people who have lived here generation after generation.”

The dairy products of the farm are now being supplied to the children at nurseries and kindergartens in Pyongyang Municipality.