Pyongyang, November 27 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il gave field guidance to Kwail County.

First he dropped in at the Kwail County Revolutionary Museum and a room devoted to the history of the county.

Displayed at the museum are precious data on immortal exploits of President Kim Il Sung who turned the county into a world-class orchard and the course through which the county made a history of earth-shaking changes under the wise leadership of the WPK.

Kim Jong Il looked round with deep impression the data displayed at the museum one after another.

A new history of Kwail County began when the President chose this area as suitable for an orchard, looking at the map during the Fatherland Liberation War, and sent hundreds of thousands of fruit saplings there. Being told about this fact, Kim Jong Il recalled the President's devoted efforts for the development of the county.

At the room devoted to the history of the county Kim Jong Il looked round with keen interest data on the successes gained by the county under the Party's guidance over the past years.

He toured various parts of the county to acquaint himself with their modernization and fruit production.

Commanding a panoramic view of the vast orchard, he praised the party members and other working people of the county for having done a lot true to the WPK's policy of pomiculture.

Going round the Pomicultural Institute, he learned about the researches into fruit culture and indicated the tasks and ways to be carried out by the institute.

He acquainted himself with the culture of a new kind of willow which grows fast, greatly helping produce fruit containers including baskets and solve the problem of firewood for the people in the county. He gave high appreciation.

He set forth tasks facing the county.

He said that the county is very favorable for the development of fruit farming in terms of such natural conditions as the height, the percentage of sunshine, accumulated temperature and soil.

A vigorous drive to put the fruit production on a highly scientific, modern and intensive basis should be conducted to radically develop pomiculture in keeping with the requirements of developing reality, he said.

He stressed the need to mass-plant short apple trees and positively introduce good seeds in order to increase the fruit production.

It is important to enhance the function and role of the Pomicultural Institute and other relevant units in order to ensure the manuring and cultivation of fruit trees on a scientific and technological basis, raise the fruit yield per hectare and actively introduce advanced technology, he said.

He also underlined the need to meticulously organize the work for activating the production at fruit processing base.

He was accompanied by Kim Jong Un, vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission of the WPK, Ri Yong Ho, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and chief of the KPA General Staff, Kim Kyong Hui, member of the Political Bureau and department director of the C.C., the WPK, Jang Song Thaek, alternate member of the Political Bureau of the C.C., the WPK and vice-chairman of the NDC, Kim Jong Gak, alternate member of the Political Bureau of the C.C., the WPK and first vice-director of the KPA General Political Bureau, Kim Kyong Ok and Han Kwang Sang, first vice department directors of the C.C., the WPK, and KPA Generals Kim Won Hong, Pak Jae Gyong and Hyon Chol Hae.