Pyongyang, April 26 (KCNA) -- Various institutes of the DPRK are striving to put the agricultural production on a modern and IT basis.

Officials and scientists of the Farm Machine Institute under the Agricultural Commission put spurs to the mass-production of efficient small rice harvesters, wheat & barley planters and traveling rice threshers in close liaison with relevant units.

Having completed the designs of tens of kinds of multi-purpose farm machines, they now push ahead with their manufacture.

Scientists of the Global Environmental Information Institute under the State Academy of Sciences have made progress in the researches to select double-cropping areas and provide an e-map by using geographical information technology.

 The Agricultural IT Institute under the Academy of Agricultural Science set up agricultural sci-tech service program "Golden Fruit" (Version 1.1) on tens of thousands of mobile phones in cooperation with officials of the Ministry of Information Industry for its effective application to actual farming. -0-