Now in autumn, a brisk campaign for gathering medicinal herbs is conducted across the country as a mass movement.

Officials and working people are striving to gather in good time herbs cultivated on a large area with much effort in spring and summer.

The medicinal herb cultivation units and the units for purchasing herbs are carrying on the harvest and storage of herbs and the securement of seeds as required by technical regulations.

South Hamgyong Province dispatched officials to the medicinal herb cultivation units to set the harvest time in conformity with the characteristics of each herb and secure the seeds of medicinal herbs for next year. The medicinal herb production units are conducting the work of gathering wild medicinal herbs with a correct methodology.

Officials in the field of Koryo medicine production in Pyongyang Municipality are pushing ahead with the work to introduce advanced technology in the collection and cultivation of medicinal herbs.