Forest Restoration Campaign Brisk in DPRK

Pyongyang, November 10 (KCNA) -- The second forest restoration campaign is now under way in different parts of the DPRK.

All the people across the country are devoting their sincere sweat and efforts to afforestation in hearty response to the call of the Workers' Party of Korea to conduct a vigorous forest restoration campaign to cover the mountains of the country with green woods.

Modern tree nurseries have been built in different parts of the country from Pyongyang to local areas and mass movements for afforestation including a movement for winning the titles of Socialist Patriotic Forest and Model County in Afforestation have been dynamically conducted.

Thanks to the guidance of respected Comrade General Secretary Kim Jong Un who is making a new history of golden mountains on this land, the country is turning into a socialist paradise with green woods.

One day in November 2014, he visited the Central Tree Nursery under the Ministry of Land and Environment Protection. He set forth the important tasks arising in covering the whole country with trees and flowers and ardently called upon the whole Party, the entire army and all the people to conduct a vigorous forest restoration campaign.

Later, he made public such works as "Let the Entire Party, the Whole Army and All the People Conduct a Vigorous Forest Restoration Campaign to Cover the Mountains of the Country with Green Woods" to make all the people keenly realize that the forest restoration is the greatest patriotic work for the prosperity and development of the country and the prosperity of all generations to come.

Since the forest restoration campaign was launched, a great innovation has been made in the afforestation of the country.

Over the past decade, the country's sapling production has increased two times and more than one million hectares of forests including hundreds of thousands of hectares of wild fruit forests have been newly created.

More than 10 000 units won the title of Socialist Patriotic Forest and the utilization of forest land increased with the introduction of valuable forest science and technology.

Like this, great progress has been made in the work to cover the whole country with trees and flowers. -0-