He first looked round several places of the farm including a mechanized workteam to learn in detail about this year's farming.

He expressed great satisfaction over the fact that all the party members and other working people of the farm made thorough preparations for this year's farming from its beginning and waged a tenacious drive, highly conscious of being responsible for the supply of rice to the nation, and thus reaped the richest-ever harvest.

He then visited ex-officer Ri Yong Jun's family in the "apricot village," which moved to a new house, to learn in detail about the construction of new modern dwelling houses and the living of farmers there.

He then moved on to the Migok Shop in the center of the village to acquaint himself with the supply of goods to the farmers.

He indicated the orientation and ways to improve the supply of goods in the rural areas.

He then mounted a platform to enjoy a bird's-eye view of the farm.

The rich autumn scenery in the fields of the co-operative farm visited by bumper crops is something spectacular which can be seen in our socialist countryside under the collective economy system only, he noted, adding that this stirring reality clearly proves the great vitality of the most advantageous socialist rural economic system in our country.

What is most important for solving the problem of clothing, food and housing is to increase agricultural production, he pointed out, indicating important tasks to be fulfilled by the farm.

He specified tasks and ways for sprucing up farm villages to meet the need of socialism, saying that rural construction is an honorable and praiseworthy patriotic work to turn the nation's rural areas into modern socialist ones better to live.

He underscored the need for the whole country and all the people to keep directing all efforts to farming and thus make steady leaping progress in agricultural production as agriculture is the most important field for solving the people's problem of clothing, food and housing.

He was accompanied by Chief Secretary of the North Hwanghae Provincial Committee of the WPK Choe Ryong Hae, Secretary of the WPK Central Committee Kim Ki Nam, and Department Directors of the WPK Central Committee Pak Nam Gi and Jang Song Thaek.