He went round the Township Co-op Farm and the Puhung Co-op Farm in Yonan County and learnt about manpower and operation of farming machines and progress in rice transplanting and encouraged the agricultural workers in the immediate farming campaign.

Then a consultative meeting was convened to take steps for raising the grain yield by distributing the crops and species on the principle of the right crop on the right soil, the right crop in the right season, and manuring and cultivating crops on a sci-tech basis, as required by the Juche methods of farming, and for the relevant units to satisfactorily provide necessary farming materials.

Earlier, the premier inspected the Sunchon Cement Complex and the Yonbaek Saltern to discuss the measures for supplying more cement to the socialist construction sites and radically increase the salt production with underground ultra-saline water.