At the 4th plenary meeting of the 8th Party Central Committee were emphasized the importance of improving guidance and management in achieving sustainable development of the agricultural production and the requirements to its end and also clarified feasible methods to maximize the advantage of the Korean-style agricultural guidance system centered on county co-operative farm management committee.
The Korean-style agricultural guidance system centered on county co-operative farm management committee was initiated by President
Chairman
"In particular, the leader put forward the original policy of establishing a new system of agricultural guidance and instituted the county co-operative farm management committee, thus bringing about a radical change in the guidance of the agriculture."
The Korean-style agricultural guidance system is the system of professional agricultural guidance organ which realizes guidance over the agriculture not in an administrative way but in an industrial way. It comprises the county co-operative farm management committee, provincial rural economy committee and the Agricultural Commission.
The agricultural guidance system centered on county co-operative farm management committee is an advantageous system which ensures vigorous advance of the socialist rural construction.
Its advantage lies in, above all, the fact that it enables the state to strengthen its unified and planned guidance over the production and management of the co-operative farms.
It is essential requirement of the socialist planned economy and modern large-scale agricultural production that the state, in charge of the co-operative farms, plans and organizes their production and management.
Planning management involves working out detailed action plan for carrying out the tasks assigned by the state, implementing it for production and management and fulfilling the assignments in indices without fail both in quantity and quality, thus gaining maximum benefits.
Organizing management includes administrative organizational work as its major component such as co-op farms' substantial organization for fulfilling the plan, evaluation and review of it, and perfectly combining connections between production units and procedure and order of farming processes, and connections between all aspects of operation, and performance procedures.
As in the modern large-scale socialist agriculture the farming process is a technical process, it is essential to realize guidance in a scientific and technical way over the whole process of planning, preparing for and proceeding with the agricultural production.
Technical guiding forces, material and technical instruments and well-established agricultural guiding system are prerequisite for the state to satisfactorily ensure its unified and planned guidance over the production and management of the co-op farms.
In the agricultural guidance system centered on county co-operative farm management committee the agricultural leading organs of the state are fully equipped with technical guiding forces and material and technical instruments needed for unified guidance over agriculture under the well-regulated work and management apparatus system.
The Agricultural Commission is authorized to supervise the provincial committee of agriculture, which is entrusted to guide the county co-operative farm management committee, which is committed to lead the national enterprises and co-op farms on the spot, which directly serve the agriculture.
The major responsibility of the Commission is to plan and organize in a unified way the agricultural production on a nationwide scale, to give a planned guidance to developing and applying agro-science and technology to faming, and to resolve with credit the issues on long-term development of agriculture.
The provincial committee of agriculture is in charge of the agricultural production within its territory and its major duty is to give guidance to it.
The county co-operative farm management committee has the most important role to play in the Korean-style system of agricultural guidance.
It is a basic organ for guiding agriculture of the county and its major mission is to fully implement the party's farming policy and Juche farming method by coordinating in a unified way all the agronomists and the national enterprises serving the farming in the county, thus fulfilling its agricultural production plan and obligatory procurement plan instructed by the state.
In the county are numerous management staff and technicians who are able to lead the agriculture in an industrial way and the national enterprises serving the farming in a technical way as well.
The number of guiding units and the area of cultivable land are suitable for the committee to organize and manage the operation of the co-op farms.
Designating the county as a major guiding unit is beneficial to give accurate and rational guidance to the farming in conformity with the climatic characteristics.
The county co-op farm management committee works out the realistic plan for agricultural production and relevant supply conditions with the national enterprises which serve the agriculture such as farm machine stations, irrigation management stations and others, and the co-op farms under control and organizes and guides its implementation.
The committee sends agronomists and experts to the spots to give concrete guidance to the operation including planning, organizing production, supply of materials, organization of labor and financial management.
The Korean-style system of agricultural guidance enables the national leading body of agriculture to realize its unified and planned guidance to the agriculture under the well-connected system from the national level to provincial, municipal and county level.
Another advantage is that it helps to strengthen the state's material and technical support for agriculture.
To strengthen the party and state's assistance for agriculture is an indispensible requirement for the overall development of socialism, for it ensures upgrading the agriculture to the solid upward phase and achieving rapid development of the Korean-style socialist countryside.
The state's guidance to the agriculture can be fully efficient only by being combined with material and technical backing.
The guidance to the countryside can only be effective and fruitful when it is based on absolute control of the material and technical support and forces.
The agricultural guidance system is a system which closely combines the functions of guidance to and support for the agriculture.
The state's guidance to the countryside under the socialism has assistant nature in itself.
The state holds under control all means and forces for support to the countryside.
Only when the state which holds in its hand the material and technical means and forces for assisting the countryside under socialism organizes and leads the operation of the co-op farms on the spot and effectuates the support for the countryside, the assistance of all forms can be materialized in an effective way in accordance with its actual requirements and result in fruits.
In the Korean-style agricultural guidance system the agricultural leading bodies of all levels have well-established work system of assisting the lower units in faith to their positions under the unified leadership of the state. They strengthen the material and technical assistance with all the technical forces and material and technical means serving the agriculture under absolute control from the standpoint of looking after the farmers' livelihood in a responsible way.
In the system the Agricultural Commission gives scientific and technical assistance to the province and the provincial committee of agriculture is in charge of technical support and supply of materials for the county by holding under its control the technical service units, technical guiding forces and the material supply agencies.
The officials of the county co-op farm management committee always go among the farmers to work with them, teach them what they need to learn, redress what has been done wrong and resolve the difficult issues, thus actively assisting the co-op farms with their production and management.
The national enterprises which serve the agriculture such as farm machinery and irrigation management stations are powerful strongholds for materializing the support of the party and the state for the countryside.
The county co-op farm management committee holds under unified control these enterprises and technical forces, properly manage them and give them actual help to serve the agriculture better. It also grasps the detailed and comprehensive actual situation of the agriculture and takes active measures for rational use of the technical means and others so that they can serve the rural economy in an effective way.
In addition it supplies farming materials and others needed for agricultural production without fail and gives responsible guidance and assistance for them to be utilized as required by the modern agricultural science and technology.
Investment to the countryside by the state and material and technical means including modern farm machines, production facilities, farming materials and others produced by the industry are supplied by the agricultural guiding organs to strengthen the material and technical foundation of the countryside.
Indeed the Korean-style system of agricultural guidance centered on county co-operative farm management committee is the most advantageous system which enables the state to manage the co-op farms based on the cooperative ownership with full responsibility and properly resolve the socialist rural issues by combining the functions of the state's guidance and support for the agriculture.
