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Pak Thae Song, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and premier of the Cabinet of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, inspected various economic sectors.

Making the rounds of various farms in Taedong, Jungsan, Phyongwon, Sukchon and Mundok counties of South Phyongan Province, the premier encouraged the agricultural workers working hard to successfully conclude the farming this year, the first year for carrying out the new five-year plan.

Learning in detail about the progress of the immediate farming process such as crop yields on different rice fields and operation of farm machines, he called on the farms to concentrate efforts and means on gathering the crops cultivated with much effort without any waste to increase the per-hectare yield to the maximum.

He underscored the need to widely introduce the scientific farming methods whose advantages have been proved in practice, finish the sowing of winter wheat and barley in the right time and in a qualitative way and promote the catfish breeding in paddy fields.

At the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex, he said it should finish in time the overhaul of the fertilizer production process by the appointed date and steadily increase the fertilizer production by putting efforts into equipment management and technical control while reducing the consumption of raw materials.

At the fifth-stage construction sites in the Hwasong area, he urged the construction units to give priority to ensuring quality, push ahead with the projects in their charge as planned and make sure all working processes fully meet the requirements of designs and construction methods through meticulous operations and guidance.

Earlier, he visited the Pyongyang Building-materials Factory and stressed the need to regard sci-tech development as a main link in the chain of the growth of production, strengthen the talented work force and actively apply innovative inventions to produce more quality building materials.

The field consultative meetings discussed the issue of directing efforts to the supply and transport of building materials to the fifth-stage construction sites in the Hwasong area and supervising the construction in a responsible manner in the relevant sectors and units, the issue for officials to methodologically innovate the business management and operation with clear goals and scientific insight for the production growth, the issue of waging a dynamic campaign for exploiting reserves for increased production and others, and took appropriate measures.