Over the last one year the Institute has been renewed. Its plottage grew 11 times, the cultivation area 14 times and flower output more than 20 times, as compared with those in the previous year.

It has modern greenhouses whose processes are based on computer control system, experimental plots and advanced bio-engineering facilities. The double vacuum glass greenhouses are designed to ensure the cultivation of flowers in all seasons.

Various species of flowers grown in its experimental plots are enough to satisfy the demand of citizens and give a facelift to streets and residential quarters of Pyongyang.

After General Secretary Kim Jong Il's visit to it in March last year, the Institute bred 20 odd new species of flowers, including cymbidium, Gerbera xhybrida hort and Cylamen persicum, collected nearly 180 species of flower genes and completed the method of propagating flowers through tissue culture.

Among the new species of flowers is Manbokhwa, named by the dear respected Kim Jong Un. Manbokhwa, an evergreen perennial plant, belongs to orchid family and blooms for a long time.

The Institute succeeded in acclimating tulip and other species of flowers grown in other countries to the climate and soil conditions of Korea and produced flowering plant based on gene transition for the first time in the country through transplantation of drought-resistant gene to a leaf cell of all-season chrysanthemum and its tissue culture. In this way it laid a foundation for producing various species of flowering plants as wished.

It also brought out books "Illustrated Book of Flowers" and "Flower Bed, Flowerpot Making and Floriculture".

Recently a flower wholesale house was built at the Institute, which is always crowded with many customers.

On display there are more than 70 species of flowers growing in Korea and different parts of the world, including Impatiens walleriana, Bromeliaceae, Celosia plumose and Cyclamen persicum Mill, rare flowers.

The house sells floral baskets and bouquets, flowerpots and vases of various shapes.

Jang Pok Hwa, chief of the Institute, told KCNA that it would mass-produce beautiful and rare flowers conducive to the people's cultural life.