calendar>>May 18. 2011 Juch 100
Shelter Belt Created in Taehongdan County
Pyongyang, May 18 (KCNA) -- The creation of shelter belt is being pushed ahead on a long-term basis in Taehongdan County, Ryanggang Province of the DPRK.

The county has created more than 1,400 km of windbreak on Paektusamcholli Plain.

It has helped protect land and ensure rich and stable potato harvest every year.

The county planted more than six million trees in more than 1,000 hectares in the last 10 years, increasing or reinforcing the shelter belt.

100 hectare nursery built by the county and those in different farms produce more than a million young trees every year to be used for the creation of shelter belt and woodland.

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