Pyongyang, June 8 (KCNA) -- Wheat and barley harvest began in rural areas of the DPRK.

Officials of the Agricultural Commission and agricultural guidance organs at all levels are vigorously organizing and guiding the work for harvest while arousing the spiritual strength of the masses through frontline-style political work.

Paechon, Pyoksong, Ongjin and other counties in South Hwanghae Province finished the repair of farm machines and set the right time of harvest on the basis of conditions of every farm and field.

In Rinsan, Phyongsan, Kumchon and other counties of North Hwanghae Province, the labor force is rationally allocated as several farming work is conducted simultaneously and the area of harvesting is expanded by increasing the operational rate of farm machines.

Farms in Panmun District of Kaesong Municipality have pushed ahead with the harvest and transport of earlier corps in a three dimensional way as soon as they are ripe. -0-