October 16 is the World Food Day.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations decided to set October 16 as the World Food Day and commemorate it every year at its 20th General Assembly held in November 1979, reflecting the apprehensions of the international community about the ever-worsening food situation.

The World Food Day was instituted with the aim of making all countries and people of the world have a correct understanding of the importance of the food problem and intensifying the international discussion on the urgency to solve the food problem of the world and its ways such as the extermination of poverty and hunger through increased food production.

Today the worldwide food crisis is a political problem directly linked with the existence of mankind and the destiny of the states and it is one of the serious knotty problems that demand urgent solution.

Therefore, a lot of countries make positive efforts to take strong and accurate measures to increase the food production.

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea directs great efforts to putting the agriculture on a high level and increasing the food production in a sustainable way.

The Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea set it as the basic task of rural development strategy to increase the agricultural production and completely solve the food problem of the country.

To this end, the DPRK is powerfully promoting the green revolution and establishing scientific farming system and methods to cope with the disastrous abnormal climate.

Continued efforts are made to attain the goal of grain production by introducing seeds of superior strains, high-yield farming methods and efficient farm machines extensively and doing farming scientifically and technologically and to boost the production of livestock products, fruits and greenhouse vegetables.

The work to change the structure of grain production is regarded as an important issue for developing the agricultural production, and efforts are directed to expanding the areas under wheat cultivation and boosting its productivity.





Paddy-field catfish breeding is extensively introduced across the country to increase the fish production per hectare while sharply lowering the feedconsumption rate and boost the grain output without using any fertilizers and agrochemicals.

Modern rural houses have been built for agricultural workers throughout the country, encouraging them to increase the grain production.

The DPRK will continue to put great efforts into the sustainable development of agriculture in the future, too, and make an active contribution to the international efforts for ensuring the world food security.