Ministries, national institutions, agencies, enterprises and residential units have rendered manpower to the cooperative farms, while giving material and technical assistance to the rural economy.

The Machine-Building Industry, Forestry, Posts and Telecommunications, Light Industry and other ministries have sent farming materials, farm machine parts, several hundred pieces of small farm implements and consumer goods to the rural communities.

Electricity has been supplied preferentially to the countryside.

The Hungnam Fertilizer Complex and other relevant establishments throughout the country are mass-producing various kinds of efficacious fertilizers suitable to biological features of crops.

Artistes from Pyongyang and local areas are finding themselves on farms to encourage peasants and helpers in their rice transplantation.

Medical workers are also offering field service to them.

The rice transplanting is progressing apace thanks to nationwide assistance.