In a matter of several months soldiers of the Korean People's Internal Security Forces have completed a huge project of rezoning hundreds of hectares, building roads and waterways extending scores of kilometers, digging trench-shaped pits of over 1,600 kilometers, setting up hundreds of thousands of tree-propping stakes and planting millions of fruit trees. They have also built modern fruit storing and processing facilities.

The farm, with well-arranged and vast orchards, ring-shaped roads and waterways and fruit tree nurseries, has put fruit farming on a scientific, intensive and modern basis.

The fruit storehouse with the capacity of several thousand tons is operated by computer, while the dried apple slices factory is streamlined.

The apple slices are turned out through such processes as washing, separation, hot-air drying and vacuum frying and finally packed.

When the rapidly progressing construction of a pig farm is finished, a cyclic system of fruit and stock farming will be established with large quantities of organic compound fertilizers from the pig farm being applied to orchards.

Recently, General Secretary Kim Jong Il visited the fruit farm again and said with pride that such a large-scale fruit farm as the Taedonggang Combined Fruit Farm could be constructed only in the DPRK, a socialist country based on collectivism.