Visit to Taedonggang Combined Fruit Farm

Kim Jong Un, First Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, First Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and Supreme Commander of the Korean People’s Army, visited the Taedonggang Combined Fruit Farm.

He was accompanied by Choe Ryong Hae, O Su Yong and Jo Yong Won.

He said he visited the farm so pleased to hear that it expects a rich crop and has supplied the first harvest of hundreds of tons of apple to Pyongyang citizens on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the country’s liberation.

He was greatly satisfied with the good produce, checking the number of apples per tree and the weight a piece in the fields.

A bumper fruit harvest is expected for this year that marks the 70th anniversaries of the country’s liberation and the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea, he said, adding he was happy to think of the people receiving apples delightedly, a mere sight of the harvest makes him pretty full and it is a sign of fortune for the country.

It is a very important undertaking to uphold the undying exploits President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il had performed in developing the country’s pomiculture that the combined fruit farm and other fruit growers around the country produce fine crops every year, he stressed.

Specifying tasks to be tackled to boost fruit production remarkably, he pointed to the need to increase per-hectare yield considerably, put the production of saplings of good species on a normal track, establish a fruit and livestock farming cycle and fully adopt advanced techniques in line with the global trend of pomiculture development.

Feasting his eyes on the vast stretches of the fields, he said the farm’s officials and workers have brought such a rich harvest by working hard to carry out the instructions of the Chairman and they have prepared a worthy present for the Party founding anniversary, and he gave his thanks to them.

He called on the employees to further develop the farm into a world-class fruit producer and the orchard of the people.

Pyongyang Times