Kobo-ri in Wiwon County, Jagang Province, is located in a remote mountainous region surrounded by rugged mountains like a folding screen. In addition, it has unfavourable farming conditions as there are little paddy fields and most of dry fields are scattered on ravines. Such a place with infertile land has now turned into a thriving one.
“As an old saying goes, a lump of iron in his house is more precious than a gold bar in other’s home. After all, it is important to treasure everything in their native place and use them effectively. So, we have made the most of the characters of the mountainous area,” said Kim Chang Gol, chairman of the management board of the cooperative farm.
According to him, his farm does livestock farming by making effective use of mountains.
A remarkable thing is that the farm cultivates dozens of hectares of arrowroot hills to minimize the consumption of cereal feed.
According to the livestock workteam leader, they could not satisfactorily solve the problem of feed though they pulverized bean and maize straw and cultivated amaranth and other crops in idle land to feed animals. Therefore, they used arrowroot which grows in mountains as the feed because it does not run out in its source, but grows fast and has high nutritive value.
“In the past, we thought our farm had unfavourable conditions for breeding goats. But it was rather suitable for goat breeding when we buckled down to it,” said a farmer at the youth goat workteam.
At present, flocks of goats graze leisurely in hundreds of hectares of natural and artificial grassland created by the farm. Every stockbreeding block is filled with pigs, rabbits, chickens, pheasants, ducks and geese.
Good livestock farming promotes farming of crops, farmers say.
The farm reportedly produces about 20 000 tons of manure annually.
The manure helped increase yield by raising the fertility of maize fields and making them unaffected by drought. As a result, the fields whose per-hectare yield had been only three tons until a few years ago have now become fertile enough to produce more than ten tons of crops per hectare.
“Thanks to the establishment of production cycle combining livestock and crop farming, the number of high-yielding workteams increased last year, too, thereby producing 12 tons of maize and over eight tons of rice per hectare,” said the farm management board chief.
Besides, farmers built a power station in the Wiwon River, and the electricity generated from there is used to lighting hundreds of homes and operating welfare service facilities and other machines and equipment.
They also built a solar-heated greenhouse at the sunny foot of a mountain as well as mushroom cultivation and fish breeding grounds to have benefit.
In Kobo-ri, there is a pass called “Sowon (wish in English)” that the locals built more than ten years ago by cutting a steep cliff out of a wish for Chairman Kim Jong Il’s visit to their native place.
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