Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- Officials and working people in North Phyongan Province of the DPRK are stepping up the rice-transplanting in thousands of hectares of paddy fields of the Honggondo Tideland reclaimed in recent years.

Rice seedlings have been transplanted in the area of 600 more hectares than last year's.

As of now, rice-transplanting result reaches 75 percent. -0-