Many farms across the country gather in rich grain harvest year after year after the programme for a rural revolution in the new era was advanced.

The respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un put forward the policy of switching over to rice farming and wheat and barley farming by boldly changing the distribution of crops in his policy speech at the Fifth Session of the 14th Supreme People’s Assembly in September 2021 and expounded on shifting the people’s dietary culture to the one with boiled rice and flour food as staple food as he set forth the rural revolution programme in the new era at the Fourth Plenary Meeting of the Eighth Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

A radical change has taken place in the agricultural production of the country after the Party’s policy on changing the cereal production structure was adopted.

Farms in all parts of the country worked out innovative and rational phased plans to increase the areas for wheat and barley cultivation and scrupulously carried out the work to survey and register the fields and plots for it correctly.

In the course of implementing the Party’s new agricultural policy, its validity and advantage were proved in practice. It resulted in the growing nationwide and public interest in and enthusiasm for wheat farming with the passage of time, giving impetus to the process.

Large areas of farmland were turned into wheat plots thanks to the positive efforts of agricultural officials and working people with a clear understanding of the fact that wheat can produce high and safe harvest as it is highly resistant to drought as compared to other crops and is harvested before the rainy season when the country is often hit by typhoon and heavy rain and that natural climatic conditions in most of the areas of the country are favourable for its cultivation and with confidence in the superiority of high-yielding wheat varieties and high yield.

They worked hard to expand the areas favourable for wheat cultivation on a large scale and improve the soil fertility on the lowlands, thereby raising the per-hectare wheat yield over two times, over five times at maximum, in the plots which had produced low maize yield.

Farms in Miru Plain including Koksan County which had produced low maize yield due to the unfavourable conditions that the soil drains poorly and the climatic conditions in the rainy season also planted wheat as a staple crop to achieve an amazing success of producing over two tons more per hectare on average than previously.

Similar achievements were also made in rice farming.

They produced and carried out organic fertilizer to the plots and did all the farm work scientifically from the selection of seeds to harvesting, reaping abundant crops in every plot year after year.

The seed revolution, double cropping, scientific farming and mechanized farming were established firmly as the components which produce substantial changes in the agricultural production and the capacity to cope with natural disasters which had done every harm to farming each year was enhanced.

With a surge of enthusiasm for high yield among agricultural officials and working people, a total of over 1 400 high-yielding farms, some 14 000 high-yielding workteams and more than 51 000 high-yielding sub-workteams were produced across the country in the past five years.