DPRK Premier Inspects Various Sectors

Pyongyang, August 8 (KCNA) -- 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 sectors of the national economy.

At the Kumsong Tractor Factory, the premier called upon the officials and workers to make redoubled efforts to attain the tractor and farm machine production goals decided by the Ninth Congress of the WPK, bearing deep in mind the great trust and expectation of the Party Central Committee which puts forward the factory as a treasure factory leading the development of the farm machine industry of the country.

Going round various production processes including gear workshop, assembly workshop and standardized goods workshop, he called for further increasing the accuracy of processing accessories, reinforcing and perfecting measuring equipment and steadily increasing the efficiency and productivity of equipment.

The field consultative meeting discussed the issues of ensuring the smooth supply of products under contract and materials necessary for tractor production and actively developing efficient farm machines suited to the topographical conditions and actual conditions of the country and took relevant measures.

After acquainting himself with the farming at the Sosin Vegetable Farm in Ryokpho District and the Tanggok Farm in Kangnam County, he called upon the agricultural sector to cultivate crops in a more scientific way in conformity with the abnormal weather condition which high temperature persists and the growth state of crops, and to widely introduce double cropping and triple cropping methods based on first and second crops cultivation and inter after-cropping and thus raise the intensive level of agricultural production. -0-