calendar>>September 25. 2012 Juch 101
Co-op Farm Well-known for Stockbreeding
Pyongyang, September 25 (KCNA) -- The Kubin Stockbreeding Cooperative Farm in Kangdong County, Pyongyang, is well known throughout the country for stockbreeding.

More than 80 percent of the farm's area is forests and thousands of goats and hundreds of milch cows are bred there.

The farm turns out kefir, butter, cheese and processed meat and its peasants largely benefit from stockbreeding.

Over the last 10 odd years the farm has introduced good breeds of animals, up-to-date farm machines and the rotation production system between stockbreeding and agricultural production.

After all, milk production increased 74.6 times, meat 12.6 times and grain 1.5 times compared with the year 1996.

The number of technicians in the farm at present is 12 times the figure in 2009.

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