Pyongyang, January 23 (KCNA) -- North Hwanghae Province of the DPRK set it as a goal to produce tens of thousands of more tons of grain this year than last year. It is now directing efforts to the improvement of soil fertility, regarding it as one of the ways for increasing the per-hectare grain yield on a stable basis.

Farms in Suan County and Sariwon City have stepped up the production and transport of organic fertilizer.

Junghwa and Hwangju counties set goals to carpet more farm fields with humus soil than the past and have carried out their daily plans by concentrating manpower and delivery means.

Kumchon County is speeding up the improvement of soil fertility by concentrating manpower on the transport of quality organic fertilizer.

Officials and agricultural workers in Pongsan, Yonthan and other counties, too, are striving to provide a decisive guarantee for increased grain production by making all farm fields fertile. -0-