Pyongyang, August 18 (KCNA) -- Agricultural workers in the city of Sinuiju and Uiju County, North Phyongan Province of the DPRK are making efforts to improve the growth of rice in submerged fields.

Those in the city of Sinuiju are working hard to prevent damage from diseases in the afflicted fields and increase one thousand-grain weight.

Farms in Uiju County have taken sci-tech measures for improving the growth of crops by giving precedence to the spraying of germicide, applying various kinds of nutrient solution and introducing cultivation techniques for reviving rice in consideration of the condition that the incidence of deceases might increase.

The growth of rice in the submerged fields is improving day by day. -0-