Leader Kim Jong Il visited the area in May 2010 when the construction of the farm was under way, and specified tasks and ways for its construction.

Officials and workers of the county have made great successes in arranging fields, bringing more land under cultivation, creating and reinforcing a windbreak and building living houses and pig farms in a little more than two years.

Potato fields turned into standardized ones and roads are being created between the arranged potato fields for the general mechanization.

Hundreds of hectares of windbreak were created to suit the geographical features and specific characters of the fields.

The construction of more than 50 pig farms have almost been finished amid the drive for establishing the rotation production system in which agriculture and stockbreeding are organically combined.

The construction of seed potato storehouse, potato storehouses, greenhouse for the production of virus-resisting seed potatoes, farm machines warehouse is being pushed forward in the final stage.

Researchers of the potato institute of the Academy of Agricultural Science have made preparations for the mass production of high-yielding seed potatoes.

New villages appeared with the construction of 1 000 houses, and the construction of school, kindergarten and hospital is making progress.

Officials and workers across the country including those of ministries and national institutions and in provinces have rendered active help to the construction of the potato farm.