Pyongy6ang, July 20 (KCNA) -- In the new era of rural rejuvenation ushered in by the great Workers' Party of Korea, a great change is taking place in the direction of agricultural production of the DPRK and the material and technical foundations guaranteeing sustainable and stable growth are further being strengthened.

The Party Central Committee set it as the main task of the strategy for developing the countryside to completely solve the country's food problem by increasing agricultural production. It made a crucial decision on pushing ahead with rice and wheat farming by changing the crop distribution and led the struggle for realizing it, thus opening a new history of the bumper harvest of wheat and barley.

The work to implement the Party's policy of changing the structure of grain production set forth in the programme for the rural revolution in the new era has been launched on a nationwide scale. In the course, a change in the understanding of wheat farming among agricultural officials and working people bas been taken place, scientific farming methods, experience and solid foundations for the growth of wheat production laid and the area of wheat cultivation increased every year. This year alone, 30 000 more hectares of cultivation areas were turned into the ones for growing wheat as compared with last year.

Thanks to the completion of the harvest of wheat and barley in the right season this year, the state grain production plan was over-fulfilled and the wheat yield of this year is expected to be increased more than three times than 2021. Thirty-four high-yield counties and 664 high-yield farms were produced, and many high-yield workteams and sub-workteams and bumper croppers were produced.

Rich harvest in wheat and barley farming made in a major thrust front of socialist economic construction is a clear proof of the validity and vitality of the new agricultural policy of the WPK. It is also a brilliant fruition of the revolutionary creation and thoroughgoing spirit of implementation of the DPRK people who are upholding the plan and decision of the Party Central Committee with one mind and loyalty, cherishing the firm faith that the plan and decision of the Party Central Committee are science, practice and victory.

In his policy speech at the Fifth Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly, the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un advanced the policy of boldly changing the crop distribution and turning into rice farming and wheat and barley farming. At the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Party Central Committee, he clarified the programme for the rural revolution in the new era and underscored the need to change the people's dietary culture into the one with the main stress on white rice and flour dishes as the main.

Thanks to the great fatherly leader who has always discussed the issue of wheat farming and taken necessary measures to steadily increase the area of wheat cultivation and output every year at important meetings and wisely led to their execution, a unified system of command and supply of necessary farming materials for expanding and developing the wheat and barley farming was established throughout the country and a new turn was brought about in agricultural production.

Thanks to the active efforts of the officials and working people in the agricultural sector, the area for growing wheat has increased more than twice than four years ago.

As the area of wheat cultivation increased, a high-yield movement has been waged in different parts of the country to increase productivity.

The countryside set a bold goal of breaking through the national per-hectare yield standard and took measures to secure high-yielding wheat seed, improve fertility of fields, introduce advanced cultivation methods, manufacture grain dryers and cope with disastrous abnormal weather.

The scientific farming promotion teams have taken sci-tech measures to produce high yields and disseminate advanced agricultural knowledge to the sub-workteams, further increasing the enthusiasm for scientific farming.

With the change in the structure of grain production and farming methods and the growth of wheat production throughout the country, the number of high-yield units has increased, resulting in a special change in the history of socialist rural construction in the country.

In the course of pushing ahead with and reaping rich harvest in wheat farming in the rural areas across the country for the past four years, the agricultural working people have redoubled their confidence and enthusiasm that they can attain any goal of grain production if they do all the things according to the Party's policy.

All the officials and working people in the agricultural sector, not content with the successes they have achieved, are putting spurs to the struggle for attaining this year's goal of grain production set forth by the Party with loyalty and patriotism to make redoubled efforts to implement the Party's policy on ensuring the overwhelming proportion of rice and wheat farming in grain production. -0-