Pyongyang, July 22 (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, made a field survey of various sectors.

Going round farms in Paechon and Yonan counties, Pak Thae Song gave a pep talk to agricultural workers who are devoting their all to carrying out the immediate farming process with loyalty and patriotism to glorify this significant year with proud successes in increasing grain production.

He called upon officials of agricultural guidance organs at all levels to bear in mind that scientific farming is the secret of rich harvest, and to give effective guidance to the farms so that they can proactively introduce advanced farming methods suited to the climatic conditions of the relevant areas and the growth conditions of crops and apply agricultural chemicals and fertilizer in a scientific way. He also stressed the need to steadily strengthen the material and technical foundations of the farms.

At the Ryongmaedo Reclaimed Tideland, he acquainted himself in detail with the rice farming and underlined the need to steadily raise the proportion of the farm work done by machines in cooperation with the Academy of Agricultural Sciences and to improve the growth of rice by taking measures for the supply of farming materials necessary for rice farming in tideland.

At the Hasong Wheel Factory he called for raising the productivity and quality of products through a dynamic mass technical innovation movement and for setting a correct stepwise goal for modernization and carrying it out thoroughly.

Discussed at the field consultative meetings were the issue of manuring and tending the after-crops in a scientific and technical way, the issue of proactively introducing advanced farming methods into rice farming in tideland and the issue of making the relevant units take measures to supply raw and other materials necessary for modernizing the Hasong Wheel Factory and putting its production on a normal track.

Earlier, the premier learned about the production at the Pyongyang Kim Jong Suk Textile Mill and took practical steps to produce more fabrics with beautiful patterns and various colors. -0-