20:00 Economy, Agriculture & Weather | |
[Page 4] Rodong Sinmun - June 19, 2025, Thursday
Let Us Minimize Damage from Torrential Rains, Heavy Downpours, and Strong Winds The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un stated:
According to the Hydro-Meteorological Service forecast, influenced by low pressure and unstable atmosphere, rain and showers are expected nationwide between June 19 and 20. Particularly, southern regions will experience heavy rain-torrential downpours, while some central-northern regions will have showers with possible lightning, gusts, and hail. Forecasted precipitation: 70–100mm (locally 100–150mm, ~200mm) in southern regions including South Hwanghae Province; 40–70mm in central regions including Pyongyang; 10–40mm in northern regions. Rain is also expected in some central-southern and northern inland regions on the 21st. The current situation demands all sectors, regions, and units actively devise measures to minimize damage from torrential rains, heavy downpours, and strong winds. Though nationwide surveys of reservoirs, drainage facilities, rivers/streams, and coastal embankments’ safety and removal of dangerous sections occurred, complacency is unwarranted. Overconfidence or negligence could cause enormous consequences. Merely identifying dangerous sections without practical measures, hoping for luck while making general exhortations, is not the proper attitude for disaster prevention officials. Primary concern must focus on ensuring people’s life safety. Strictly establish reporting systems, organize swift, safe evacuation during emergencies, and exert effort eliminating local/unit danger spots. Prepare rescue equipment for immediate mobilization. Substantively conduct work to re-educate people on crisis response methods and behavioral order through diverse forms. Strengthen education and control to absolutely prevent human casualties from unexpected accidents. The agricultural sector requires special vigilance now. Treating disaster prevention work lightly as routine could cause grain rot and farmland inundation. All sectors and units—power, coal, mining, construction, metals, rail transport, land management, urban management—must thoroughly establish protective measures for equipment, materials, buildings, and facilities, meticulously identify vulnerable targets/factors, and take appropriate action. The Hydro-Meteorological Service must rapidly and accurately inform changing weather forecasts. All officials, Party members, and workers must deeply realize disaster prevention work’s importance, re-examine gaps and loopholes, and ensure perfect preparedness. Correspondent
Devising Measures to Minimize Damage from Abnormal Disastrous Weather - At the Potonggang District Power Transmission and Distribution Station -
(Korean Central News Agency)
Treating Farm Work as Our Unit’s Own Task The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un stated:
Recently, visiting Sinwon County Unyang Farm bustling with farm work, we met a farm official who shared: "In the struggle to achieve this year’s grain production target, we draw great strength from the devoted spirit of Education Ministry officials working alongside us." At a recent farm officials’ meeting, rationally maximizing machinery operation rates to timely complete current farm work was importantly discussed. Learning of this, Education Ministry officials unexpectedly arrived at the farm with numerous machine parts and farming materials prepared wholeheartedly. Only then did officials understand what provincial officials noted while surveying fields and repeatedly discussing knee-to-knee with farm workers days earlier. That wasn’t all. During busy farming seasons, provincial officials sincerely provided labor support and rear support, boosting agricultural workers’ morale. They actively helped establish educational bases, delivered supplies to farm households, and encouraged repaying the Party’s benevolence—unfolding a new era of rural prosperity—with high grain yields. When farm workers expressed gratitude for machine parts, Education Ministry officials replied: "Supporting the countryside materially and spiritually is our officials’ rightful duty." Inspired by their warm hearts, farm workers sprang unanimously into current farm work, faithfully fulfilling tasks. We reflected: Truly patriotic people concerned about the nation’s rice jar and contributing to prosperity must treat farm work as their unit’s own task and devote sincerity to rural support, like Education Ministry officials. Special Correspondent Yun Yong Ho
Let Us Actively Encourage Organic Farming Methods The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un stated:
Holding high the Party policy of actively encouraging organic farming, Hongwon County Town Farm achieves great profit using earthworm-based plant physiological activators in agricultural production. Farm officials noted that the activator—completed after years of effort by Kim Il Sung University’s Intelligent Bio-Products Production Institute research team—can be adopted anywhere with minimal input. Production is simple: Install several tanks in greenhouses, fill them with evenly mixed earthworms and livestock manure, ensure temperature, create dark conditions, and sprinkle water periodically. Earthworms multiply in manure, producing liquid activator at tank bottoms. Used for seed disinfection, seedling management, crop nutrition, pest/disease prevention, etc., it shows good effects. Farm officials and workers adopted this activator last year, reaping great profit. A notable point in officials’ work for organic farming: First, primary officials deeply recognized the activator’s excellence by seeing it firsthand. Test plots showed faster, simultaneous sprouting from activator-treated seeds. Applying activator to rice seedling beds improved growth noticeably in two days. Multiple sprayings enabled transplanting seedlings to paddies nearly 10 days earlier. Primary officials’ response was enthusiastic; adoption zeal unexpectedly high. Another highlight: Substantial on-site technical guidance yielded profit in farming practice. When primary officials explained the activator’s superiority to farm members, all sprang to adopt it. However, some farm workers neglected technical requirements, desiring only improved crop growth. Farm officials addressed this deviation, organizing demonstration work at Work Team No. 1. They emphasized correctly determining activator dilution ratios based on soil fertility and crop growth. This helped farm workers realize strict adherence to technical requirements’ importance. Using activators in rice farming last year improved root development, increasing effective tillers per pyeong. Pest/disease prevention effects were also clear. Information-per-pyeong yield increased by 0.5–1.3 tons over previous periods. Not just grains like wheat, barley, corn. Officials and farm workers adopted activators in vegetable farming, achieving high effectiveness. Early this year, agricultural officials visited the farm. All stated they would adopt this organic method in local farming, yielding great profit with small input. The farm is deepening work to adopt earthworm-based plant physiological activators based on achievements. Kim Ryong
Let Us Actively Encourage Organic Farming Methods The Honam Farm under Pyongyang City Rural Economy Committee benefits greatly by planting many green manure crops. Achieving grain yield growth yearly requires decisive scientific farming and firmly securing guarantees through soil fertility improvement. Awakening to this, farm officials focused on green manure crops while pooling wisdom and passion. Green manure crops generally have lush leaves/stems and decompose rapidly underground, accelerating nutrient absorption and showing quick fertilizer effects. Thus, planting green manure crops, plowing them under after growth, increased soil fertility and grain yields without additional fertilizer. Years ago, before harvesting September rice, the farm sowed green manure seeds on low-fertility paddies, covered them post-harvest for overwintering. Next spring, plowing under grown green manure before transplanting yielded excellent results. Paddies with green manure showed soil color and rice growth comparable to high-fertility fields. The legitimacy of Party policy actively encouraging organic farming was proven in reality. The farm continued expanding green manure cultivation area, especially emphasizing overwintering rates. Sequentially planting green manure on fixed areas of low-yield paddies yearly will eliminate low-productivity land in years—how wonderful! Correspondent
Let Us Actively Encourage Organic Farming Methods Kangsan Farm in Chollima District boosts information-per-pyeong grain yield by organically integrating farming and livestock. Pondering ways to decisively increase grain production and fulfill their duty as masters responsible for the nation’s rice jar, farm officials focused on livestock. Strengthening livestock is producing quality organic fertilizer and increasing grain yields. Holding this view, officials tenaciously tackled vitalizing livestock. Initially unsuccessful, they redoubled determination to ultimately advance livestock, increase organic fertilizer production, and turn all paddies into fertile fields, struggling fiercely alongside farm workers. A typical example: Pooling wisdom on effective feed solutions, they concluded that feeding livestock chopped grain straw mixed with minimal grain fermented uniformly improves weight gain. Adoption visibly improved livestock nutritional status, appetite, and digestion/absorption. Today, the farm annually produces hundreds of pigs, thousands of poultry, and many eggs—supplying kindergartens and nurseries and using for farm livelihood. Crucially, quality organic fertilizer from livestock—tens of tons per information—enriched the soil. This inevitable result stems from officials and farm workers’ devoted, persistent efforts to establish a circular production system per the Party’s intention. Correspondent Pak Yong Jin
Paddy Irrigation Equipment Production Vigorously Advanced The Songchon River Electric Machine Factory vigorously advances paddy irrigation motor production. The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un stated:
Holding the determination to timely produce motors demanded by various people’s economy sectors, officials, workers, and technicians at the Songchon River Electric Machine Factory display mass technical innovation movement might, pushing to final stages the establishment of a new high-efficiency motor production process different from last year. Simultaneously, they spur fulfillment of planned paddy irrigation motor production tasks. Under Party organization guidance, officials responsible for and dispatched to key workshops methodologically conduct frontline political work arousing mass spiritual strength while timely resolving motor production problems. Relevant departments’ roles in prioritizing raw/material supply strengthen. Amidst close inter-process coordination, production normalization sounds vibrate energetically across workplaces. Workers at the casting workshop—pioneering process—explore and apply rational work methods to increase induction furnace operation rates and shorten melting time, accelerating casting production. Workers at the mold/casting workshop, having newly created mold equipment, achieve daily innovations in motor rotor production. The machining workshop ensures motor shaft precision through strict equipment/technical management. Material workshop producers cooperate with technical staff/technicians to restore scrap cutters to original performance, among other advances in saving materials while raising productivity. The assembly workshop actively creates favorable conditions by adopting efficient winding insertion methods and modernizing motor rotor dynamic balancers with scientific research units. Today, the factory’s officials and workers strive devotedly in motor production, determined to greet glorious October with proud labor achievements. Kim Ju Il
Not Merely a Process of Ranking The lathe operator and sheet metal worker competitions of the "National Economic Sectoral and Trade-Specific Skilled Workers Competition - 2025" were recently held at the Kumsong Tractor Factory. Over 80 outstanding lathe operators and sheet metal workers selected by provincial/central organs and provincial people’s committees competed. The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un stated:
This year’s competition featured participants not merely competing in practiced skills but learning from and teaching each other—an experience exchange forum and new technical creation process. Judges noted that valuable creative suggestions and rationalization proposals emerged during the competition, and good equipment management experiences were actively generalized, improving relevant units’ equipment performance. Consider Kim Chang Gil from the Koksan County Construction Detachment—triple winner in sheet metal work. By creating and applying rational jigs to improve product quality and shorten sheet metal working time, he was evaluated as a skilled worker firmly combining theory and practice. Pae Kwang Il from the Taean Heavy Machinery Complex—first in lathe work—proposed rational creative suggestions saving materials/machining time and improving product quality while pondering ways to maximize production and savings. Moreover, participants’ tireless efforts to contribute good ideas to farm machinery production displayed the working class’s elevated zeal to cover socialist countryside with our farm machines per the Party’s wish. While touring the competition site at its peak, we saw participants heatedly discussing ways to machine more products within unit time for given blueprints, and unit officials present. Labor Ministry Bureau Chief Jang Kum Chol noted: "Unlike last year, enthusiasm is exceptionally high not just among participants but also their unit officials. For example, the Power Industry Ministry considers the competition a good opportunity to improve skilled workers’ technical levels and fully guarantees necessary conditions." He added that unit officials themselves seem to compete. A particularly notable issue: The spirit of collectivism—learning and teaching skills/experiences to advance together—pervaded the venue. Meeting Ri Myong Chol from the Hwanghae Iron and Steel Complex, we saw him meticulously reviewing his unit’s equipment management plan and technical training plan. Other participants also devotedly provided necessary tools, parts, and materials to improve equipment performance and impart advanced experience/technology. Hence, Kumsong Tractor Factory officials and workers reflected that they learned proper attitudes toward equipment management from participants, regretting the competition’s brevity. Participants unanimously voiced that selfless assistance from officials of relevant units—State Planning Commission, Labor Ministry, Finance Ministry, Grain Administration Ministry, Machine-Building Industry Bureau, Nampo City People’s Committee—who devotedly ensured competition success, enabled good results. However, some units still regard the skilled workers competition as a burden due to "busy current production," either not participating or sending irrelevant personnel from competition-host regions, dampening participants’ high zeal. Responsible officials at such units must correctly understand the Party’s intent in organizing the competition and remember that strengthening skilled worker ranks is not routine work but important work for implementing Party policy. What does this lathe operator and sheet metal worker competition suggest? That competitions across the economy achieve practical progress in strengthening skilled worker forces only when thoroughly oriented toward actively sharing/transferring skills/experiences and advancing hand-in-hand, and when officials approach skilled worker rank expansion with correct perspectives and attitudes. Correspondent Choe Hyon Gyong
The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un stated:
Holding high the Party’s noble intention to continuously raise the localization ratio of equipment for local industry factories, scientific research activities by scientists and technicians from multiple scientific research institutions, universities, and people’s economy units proceed vigorously. According to data compiled by the Central Emergency Promotion Committee for Local Development 20×10, as of late May, trial production and operational testing for dozens of prototype equipment types for local factories are fully underway, with exploration and creation battles for raising localization ratios unfolding dynamically. Scientists from the State Academy of Sciences, entrusted with the Party’s great trust, play a core role in localizing essential equipment for local factories. Academy officials organized technical consultative meetings multiple times. Through concretely analyzing defects during design, production, installation, and operation of dozens of equipment types last year, they swiftly completed overall designs for this year’s equipment. Scientists from the Mechanical Control Institute, Mechanical Engineering Institute, Power Machinery Institute, etc., deeply conducted literature research and field surveys. They produced bread production equipment including ovens and rollers, and core equipment for candy production lines in short periods, initiating operational testing. Scientists at the Central Mining Institute, tasked with centrifugal fan production, designed and manufactured equipment more convenient to operate with higher efficiency and durability than imported equivalents based on understanding operational characteristics, giving the working class pride in our own. Scientists from the Paper Engineering Institute, Design Institute, Thermal Engineering Institute, and other research units—tasked with technical preparations for paper factory construction rising in South Pyongan Province—devote wisdom and passion to establishing processes based on Korean-style paper production technology. Scientists from Kim Chaek University of Technology’s Mechanical Science and Technology Faculty adopted rational remodeling plans to produce vacuum packagers superior in performance indicators, easier to operate, and lower cost than imports. They now strive intensely with unit technicians to research and introduce optimized design plans. Achievements by Pyongyang University of Mechanical Engineering scientists—upholding the Party’s local development policy with high practical results—are also notable. University officials organized equipment production teams with capable scientists and took practical measures to complete assigned equipment developmentally and creatively. With strong technical guidance and condition guarantees, scientists localized dough mixer drive devices and introduced substantial plans reducing emulsion agitator failure rates and improving operability. Scientists tasked with various washers and heat-shrink packagers devoted clean conscience to every design dot and line, ensuring our equipment is aesthetically pleasing and high-performing. Scientists immediately promoted adoption testing at relevant factories after trial production completion, updating technical characteristics. Meanwhile, Han Tok Su University of Light Industry scientists urgently resolved sci-tech problems through close ties with unit technicians, accelerating production of over a hundred equipment types. They also completed in-house production of several equipment types, including Party liquid concentrators, and focus on research to improve performance. Technicians at Wonsan Ventilator Factory completed designs for various medium-pressure fans and rapidly produced prototypes. They now powerfully push series production preparations for excellently evaluated medium-pressure fans while correcting deficiencies revealed in operational testing. Moreover, scientists and technicians from many units fiercely conduct scientific research to develop and complete equipment needed for establishing production processes at local industry factories with our strength and technology. Correspondent Pak Hyon
Photo: At Pyongyang University of Mechanical Engineering’s Mechanical Engineering Research Institute | |
| Category: English | Views: 17 | | |
