Officials in the field of agriculture in relevant provinces went to cities and counties and have intensified their guidance over farming with the main emphasis on increasing per-hectare yield at all farms.

Agricultural workers in South Hwanghae Province strive to put the cultivation of wheat and barley on a scientific basis as required by the Juche farming methods.

The province takes measures to provide its farms with natural biological activators and other plant nutrients and growth regulators in good time, while paying attention to fertilizing and weeding.

North Phyongan and South Phyongan provinces encourage the agricultural workers to raise their enthusiasm for scientific farming so as to introduce innovative farming methods suited to the regional features and climatic conditions.

Farms in North Hwanghae Province and Kaesong City, too, are tending wheat and barley in a proper way, true to the Party's policy of raising good crops.

The farms in the western area are now making the drought a fait accompli and securing enough water resources while concentrating efforts on the manuring and cultivation of the first crops in the earing period. And they are making full preparations for mobilizing all pumping equipment and water carriage means.