Catfish Farm Inspected

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 Samchon Catfish Farm, accompanied by Hwang Pyong So and other senior officials.

Looking round the room for education with revolutionary relics, he said that the officials and employees of the farm should produce more catfish to add brilliance to the leadership exploits performed by Chairman Kim Jong Il.

As he made the rounds of the farm, he inquired about details of production and business activities and specified tasks to be tackled in turning the farm into a world-level catfish producer.

It is needed, he said, to launch an operation in a big and audacious way on the basis of a scientific economic calculation in order to strengthen the farm’s material and technical foundations, especially by building more hatching grounds and indoor and outdoor pools and setting up a latest feed production facility so as to building up the farm’s production capacity significantly.

He referred to the need to build a large-capacity reservoir in the nearby area rich in spa water resources and establish a system of recycling used water.

The farm should be developed into the country’s leading catfish farm in terms of production capacity and Juche-oriented, scientific, intensive and industrial level, he noted, adding that the success and experience the Pyongyang Catfish Farm and the May 9 Catfish Farm achieved in their modernization efforts should be adopted positively by the farm to make its production and business activities intelligent, IT-based, digitalized and automated.

He said that he would send a large contingent of designers, civil engineers, scientists and technicians to help push the modernization project.

He expressed belief that the farm would be transformed into a wonderful establishment which is loved by personnel and people and which would bring actual benefits to them, saying that the country is undergoing a sea change at a marvellous speed.

The Pyongyang Times