calendar>>June 26. 2010 Juch 99
Harvesting of First Crops Begins in DPRK
Pyongyang, June 26 (KCNA) -- The harvesting of wheat, barley and potato which were planted as the first crops of the double cropping began in the fields on co-op farms of the DPRK.

More than 50 percent of wheat and barley in the fields on cooperative farms of Haeju City and Thaethan and Paechon counties, South Hwanghae Province, have been harvested.

20 percent of wheat and barley and 14 percent of potato were harvested in all fields around Pyongyang.

Agricultural workers in North Hwanghae Province are harvesting first crops in hundreds of hectares of field everyday.

Cooperative farms in North and South Phyongan provinces and Kangwon Province and other areas are pushing forward the sowing of seeds for second crops in the fields where the harvesting was over, while speeding up the harvesting of first crops.

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