The newly-developed farm machines were exhibited at the 43rd National Farm Machine Exhibition and Contrivers' Meeting.

Prof. and Dr. Pak Man Song of the Farm Machine Institute under the Ministry of Agriculture told KCNA:

The farm machines displayed in the exhibition are put on a comprehensive and multi-purpose basis, and they are manpower-saving and water-saving ones suited to the topographical conditions and constitutional character of Koreans.

Among them are manpower-saving threshing machines and water-saving soil-managing machines.

A comprehensive, mobile maize thresher made by the Farm Machine Station in Unpha County, North Hwanghae Province can raise the threshing capacity five times compared with the existing ones and save 60 percent of manpower and 20 percent of electric power, while doing selection and package.

A mobile bean, wheat and barley thresher manufactured by the Farm Machine Station in Hoechang County, South Phyongan Province can save 40 percent of electric power.

Jong Son, department director of the Ministry of Agriculture, said:

The newly-manufactured farm machines are high-efficient and modern ones.

10 odd kinds of farm machines have been introduced in co-op farms.

Those machines are the fruit of the self-development principle of the technicians and agricultural workers.

When visiting the exhibition of machinery and equipment in May, respected Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un gave an important guideline that the comprehensive mechanization of agriculture should be pushed forward.

The state is planning to raise the level of mechanization in farm work at 60 or 70 percent by accelerating the comprehensive mechanization of agriculture on the basis of achievements gained in the 200-day campaign.