When We think of the new change for rural development taking place on this land, I look back with deep emotion on the devoted efforts made by President
I am going to tell about his paternal love associated with the new history of comprehensive mechanization at Ryongchon Farm in Hwangju County, the highest area in Hwangju Kindung plain.
Chairman
"Concerned about how to increase agricultural production and liberate the farmers from backbreaking labor, Comrade
One day in late March of 1971, he visited the then Ryongchon Cooperative Farm in Hwangju County. He stopped his car by a broken tractor carrying manure and unreservedly took in his hand the oil-stained hand of the driver daubed with dust and oil. Then he turned his eyes to the manure heap, saying that it was well-decayed and such manure should be applied in large quantities.
He went on to say that it must have been difficult to load the manure into the tractor and at least unloading should be done with an automatic device, and asked him how they were planning to harvest wheat in the future, without taking his eyes off the vast wheat field. As the driver said that he would remodel a rice harvester and use it, he approved of his opinion and said that wheat harvesting should definitely be mechanized.
One year earlier on March 8, 1970, he visited the farm and gave instructions on mechanizing farm work. He called for mechanizing all farm work including sowing, threshing, spraying agrochemicals and applying additional manure, unfolding a far-reaching plan for the comprehensive mechanization of the rural economy.
Even afterwards, he visited the road construction site which was initiated by the farm to raise the utilization rate of tractors. He appreciated the efforts of the farm workers who turned out in the construction and said that only when the road is good can tractors and trucks run easily and the rate of utilization of farm machines be increased, adding that, at the same time, land realignment is very important in further increasing the utilization rate of tractors.
Paying close attention to freeing our farm workers from the laborious farm work as early as possible, the great leader sent many tractors, bulldozers, trucks, trailer farm machines and machine tools, including lathes and drilling machines, needed for building a base of their own for repairing farm machines.
This is how the new history of comprehensive mechanization in the Kindung plain was written.
