Pyongyang, May 2 (KCNA) -- North Hwanghae Province in the DPRK is increasing the production of consumer goods by relying on its own raw materials and resources and technical force.

The province intensifies organizational and political work and technical guidance so that the industrial establishments strengthen the material and technical foundations to diversify products and improve their quality indices.

It set it as a goal to lower cost and improve quality and has conducted technical emulation and production emulation and organized an exhibition of consumer goods to generalize the successes and experience gained by advanced units.

Foodstuff factories in Unpha and Yonthan counties are pushing ahead with the work to develop competitive and popular goods and special products peculiar to their regions with sweet potatoes, apples and fruits of Aronia melanocarpa collected from their raw materials bases.

The variety of products made with locally available raw and materials is on the steady increase amid the growing enthusiasm for emulation among regions and units. -0-