The quotas for sowing rice seeds are being carried out at 111 percent across the country as compared with that in the same period of last year.

Officials and agricultural workers of South Phyongan Province and North Hwanghae Province have carried out their daily plans for sowing rice seeds at more than 150 percent to suit weather and water conditions.

Co-op farms in the provinces have given precedence to creating beds for rice seedlings and applied a sufficient amount of quality manure and fertilizers to them as required by Juche farming method.

Farms in North Phyongan Province and South Hwanghae Province are meticulously organizing manpower and ensuring the accurate amount of seeds per area.

Agricultural workers on the eastern coast are energetically pushing ahead with sowing seeds.

Those in North Hamgyong Province and Kangwon Province are carrying out in a substantial way the work to finish qualitatively in time the sowing of rice seeds, the first breakthrough in increasing grain output, despite unfavorable weather conditions.