The symposium and workshop were held through video-conferencing.

Presented at the symposium on the theme of "Maize cultivation technology for overcoming the effect of disastrous abnormal weather" were valuable papers and proposals made by scientists, technicians and field officials of more than 20 units, including the maize research institute of the Academy of Agricultural Science and Pyongyang University of Agriculture.

The participants had an in-depth discussion on the sci-tech problems for raising the maize fertility rate in high temperature and humidity, increasing thousand-kernel weight and minimizing damage by typhoon and moisture, while exchanging ways for boosting the grain yield.

At the workshop held on the theme of "Putting the manuring and cultivation of soybean on a scientific basis", there were a technical lecture on the agro-technical measures for reducing damage by disastrous abnormal weather in soybean farming, the effective cultivation technology for increasing the yield in after-crop soybean farming and the scientific fertilization method, etc. and a video show.