Officials of the Ministry of Agriculture and provincial rural economy committees carefully unfold the work of meticulously organizing the operation and rousing the masses after acquainting themselves with the maturity of crops in each field.

Agricultural workers in Pyongyang City have finished the harvesting in most of the farms in the city and concentrate their efforts on threshing.

Those in North Phyongan Province are pressing ahead with the harvesting to gather in the crops without any loss.

Those in other areas are pushing forward the cutting of rice plants, transport and threshing simultaneously by increasing the operating ratio of various farm machines including tractors and mobile rice thrashers while taking thorough measures to protect the harvested crops from decay.