Pyongyang, November 10 (KCNA) -- The Central Tree Nursery under the Ministry of Land and Environment Protection is a leading sapling production base of the DPRK, in which sapling production has been put on a high scientific, industrial and intensive basis.

The tree nursery is associated with the patriotic devotion made by the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un to turn all mountains of the country into gold and treasure mountains.

The General Secretary visited the Central Tree Nursery on November 10, 2014 and gave invaluable instructions concerning the tree nursery operation, including the one of expanding the sapling production base to produce more saplings and the one of perfecting the tree planting and cultivating method suited to the specific features of the country.

He set forth important tasks for covering the whole country with trees and flowers and ardently called upon all the Party members, service personnel and people to turn out as one in a campaign for forest restoration, regarding it as a campaign to conserve nature.

The patriotic appeal of the peerlessly great man aroused all the people to the forest restoration and brought about a radical turn in the tree nursery work as well.

Officials and employees of the tree nursery built a new seed selection and sowing ground and expanded the area of outdoor cultivation ground to lay a material foundation for increasing the sapling production several times the past's.

They also studied and adopted a new method of optimizing the growth conditions of saplings and raising their survival rate.

The tree nursery has produced a large number of saplings and sent them to different parts of the country every year. -0-