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Many farms have undergone a new transformation since the programme for the rural revolution in the new era was advanced five years ago.

The farms in Sukchon County irrigated with the water from the Phyongnam irrigation waterway are no exception.

Today not just one or two farms, but dozens of farms in the county are changing at once and simultaneously, in a diversified way, not one-sidedly, and rapidly, not slowly.

All the farms in the county have fulfilled the grain production plan every year without fail as the farming has radically changed and farmers have shown the remarkably growing enthusiasm to reap rich harvest.

 “Our farmers are working cheerfully as the rate of farm work done by machines has been raised thanks to the warm care of the state,” said Pak Chung Song, manager of the Chaeryong Farm.

He added that there were well over a hundred farm machines of all kinds including mobile thresher and rice combine harvester in the farm.

It was regarded as natural that they had to get labour assistance in busy farming seasons like rice-transplanting and harvesting five years ago.

But since the rural revolution programme was advanced, the number of farm machines has increased as the domestically-produced tractors were supplied to the farm and the rate of farm work done by machines has been raised.

With the increased number of farm machines, the rice transplanting scene of the farm changed each year. Those who would do shovelling became tractor drivers and those who used to transplant rice seedlings with hands rice transplanting machine operators.

The Ryongdok Farm was the most backward one in the county.

But many things have changed in the farm since the regional-industry factories were set up in the county last year as the first fruit of the regional development policy of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

Various condiments and confectionery with the brand name “Manphungnyon” and the daily necessities with the brand name “Phungnyonsae” made in the county were supplied to the residents each month on a regular basis.

The farmers are particularly happy to go to the field in “Phungnyonsae”-brand working uniforms.

They were all eager to fulfil their duty as farmers and bring about bumper harvest, not paying lip service to their gratitude to the state which bestows favour on them.

They did their best to grow more cereals in their fields and overfulfilled their cereals production plan for the first time in decades last year and were the first to carry out the settlements of accounts and income distribution both in the county and the province.

At the Chilli Farm, as farmers’ enthusiasm for scientific farming grows, many of them were enrolled in the study-while-you-work system and the number of agricultural engineers increased to dozens. At the Yoltusamchon Farm, the farmers lead a more civilized life as they sing songs and play musical instruments after a day’s work.

All the farms in Sukchon County are witnessing a new life and new landscape on their own land in the new era in which the countryside is being transformed. And the county was honoured with the title of Best Agricultural County in 2024 and 2025.