Pyongyang, March 5 (KCNA) -- Following are major news items and articles in leading newspapers of the DPRK on Wednesday:

- Editorials and articles mark the 79th anniversary of the promulgation of the historic agrarian reform law by President Kim Il Sung.

- The daily necessities factories and garment factories in 20 cities and counties, the first entities of implementing the regional development policy, are striving for the normal production and the improvement of quality of products.

- Women's union officials and members met with winners of the Communist Mother Honor Prize to mark the 115th March 8 International Women's Day.

- Successes have been made in various national economic sectors and units and different parts of the country.

- The Lao Foreign Ministry delegation left here for home.

Rodong Sinmun

- An article says that agricultural workers across the country have turned out as one to glorify this year marking the 80th birthday of the Workers' Party of Korea with high grain production results.

Minju Joson

- An article calls upon all the national economic sectors and units to intensify the drive for increased production.

- Another article deals with Russia's great efforts for the development of education. -0-