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Guidelines for Development of Fruit Farming
Pyongyang, May 13 (KCNA) -- Ten years has elapsed since General Secretary Kim Jong Il published a famous work "On Bringing About a New Turn in Developing Fruit Farming" on May 13, Juche 90 (2001).

The work, which deals with such issues as seed selection, manuring and cultivation of fruit trees and fruit processing and supply, serves as guidelines for the development of fruit farming.

Tremendous achievements have been made in the country's fruit farming.

The Taedonggang Combined Fruit Farm was built on a huge scale to produce large quantities of fruits and processed fruits.

The Kosan Fruit Farm on the east coast finished a modernization project with high-yield dwarf apple trees growing in hundreds of hectares.

An apple orchard covering over 160 hectares has been created in the Ryongjon Fruit Farm and an apricot orchard of several hundred hectares in the Hoeryong Fruit Farm.

The Sariwon Fruit Farm has built a grapery covering much more than a hundred hectares and Onchon, Hwangju, Toksong and other fruit farms planted a large number of high-yield fruit trees.

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