The Pyongyang Municipal Rural Economy Committee is making preparations for next year's project for perfecting the irrigation system.

The committee has pushed ahead with the work for securing electric motors, transformers, cement, steel and other equipment and building materials in close cooperation with relevant units.

Meanwhile, it steps up the preparations for laying pipes and building new waterways.

Officials and workers in the agricultural field in Kaesong Municipality are directing efforts to storing water under a well-worked-out plan.

The South Hamgyong Provincial Rural Economy Committee has directed primary efforts to the production of fermented manure, regarding it as an important factor in improving the fertility of soil.

A provincial show on preparations for next year's farming and an on-the-spot technical workshop on the production of fermented manure were held and conditions for its production were provided.

After distributing the production plan for fermented manure to cities and counties, the provincial rural economy committee is taking measures to produce funguses in close contact with relevant units and supply them to cities and counties as required.

South Hwanghae Province is concentrating efforts on ploughing paddy and non-paddy fields.

The area of ploughed fields in the province has reached 1.3 times as large as the one of the same period of last year.