calendar>>June 24. 2009 Juche 98
Effective Vegetable Seed-Covering Material
Pyongyang, June 24 (KCNA) -- The Koryo Biomedicine Centre under the State Academy of Sciences of the DPRK has developed a vegetable seed-covering material, attracting a great attention of experts.

The material is a natural organic product which is manufactured with extract of medicinal herb abundant in the country as the main and in combination with nutritive and active substances and additives.

It, made on the basis of the Koryo pharmaceutical technology, contains various nutritive elements, active material and insecticidal and germicidal agents.

The seed-covering material not only promotes the initial growth of crops and shortens their vegetative period so as to increase the yield but also makes their resistance strong against the unfavorable conditions (damages by cold-weather, drought, rain and storm and salt) and against damage by blight and harmful insects.

It is applicable widely to rice, maize, bean, wheat, barley, potato, various kinds of vegetables, flowering plants and others. It has been already introduced into the various units throughout the country. Last year witnessed that the crops treated with it covered hundreds of thousands of hectares of land.

Its advantages have been proved through the prevention of damage by blight and harmful insects and increased yield.

Its application is very optimistic because it has no harmful influence on environment and human body and conforms to the current trend toward the organic farming method.

Copyright (C) KOREA NEWS SERVICE(KNS) All Rights Reserved.