Last year, many farms in six cities and counties of North Hamgyong Province, which have suffered much damage from cold weather, and in Ryanggang, Kangwon and South and North Phyongan provinces reaped good harvest in low-yielding fields by introducing scientific farming methods.

On the basis of such achievement, the Ministry of Agriculture is pushing ahead with the work to increase the grain production in all low-yielding fields.

It has paid efforts to grasping the area of low-yielding fields in all farms and establishing soil amelioration method and cultivation technology according to the soil conditions.

Works are going on for the farms to positively introduce ridge cultivation methods, high-yielding strains of rice and the method for cultivating big rice seedlings according to their climatic and soil conditions and to set the right time of rice transplantation according to rice varieties while enriching the soil.

It also makes those farms introduce cover culture and other cultivation methods to raise the corn yield per hectare and take measures for supplying water.

The increased production of grain in low-yielding fields is one of the important tasks for the development of agriculture in the country.