Officials and scientists of the Academy of Agricultural Science studied and introduced the seed covering agent capable of increasing the per-hectare yield by preventing various diseases and boosting the early growth of crops, and introduced the field electronic map management program and the farming control support system into farms across the country.

The May 28 Metal Research Institute under the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry succeeded in developing a rational casting method suited to the actual conditions, thus contributing to the work for manufacturing parts of energy-saving oxygen heat blast furnace.

Scientists of the Mining Engineering Institute under the Academy of Coal Mining Science developed a technology for increasing the drilling speed and introduced it into the coal faces of the Ryongdung Coal Mine under the Kujang Area Coal Mining Complex.

Meanwhile, the Automation Institute, the Hydrogen Energy Institute and other units of the State Academy of Sciences set realistic research goals and have regularly reviewed the research work on the projects.

Kim Il Sung University has attained valuable successes, including the establishment of cutting tool production process based on domestic raw materials, and improvement and introduction of nano-compound fuel additive.

Kim Chaek University of Technology has made such research achievements as the introduction of electric impulse water treatment technology, the manufacture of various medical apparatuses and the development and production of various permanent magnet synchronous motors. The university dispatched researchers to various sectors of the national economy to solve scientific and technological problems arising in practice and actively push ahead with the work for positively introducing the successes already made into relevant units.

Pyongyang University of Transport is conducting brisk research work conducive to modernizing the railways.