The great leader Comrade Kim Chong-Il has indicated the following: only through good farming can we increase grain production and the production of other farm products and thus solve the people's food problem.
Solving the people's food problem through good farming was the lifetime wish of the fatherly leader and is an invariable thought and intent of the great General Kim Chong-Il.
Upholding the fatherly leader's behest, the great leader Comrade Kim Chong-Il has illuminated the course and way by which we will thoroughly implement the Party's agriculture-first policy and the chuche farming methods and by which we will increase agricu ltural production. He is thus energetically leading and fully mobilizing the whole Party, the whole country, and all people to the struggle toward this end.
The great leader Comrade Kim Chong-Il has, even recently, put forth many policies on solving the food problem, which call for a new turn in grain production and other agricultural production by thoroughly implementing the Party's agriculture-first policy.
Solving the people's food problem by thoroughly implementing the Great General's policy and by effecting a new turn in agricultural production in 1997 is an important demand which comes to the fore in victoriously winding up the arduous march and stepping up socialist construction.
In firmly defending our own style of socialism centered on the masses and in adding luster to it by smashing the enemies' vicious anti-socialist, anti-republic maneuvers, increasing agricultural production is particularly important.
The State Administration Council has adopted the decision calling for state economic agencies and other relevant organizations, enterprises, and groups to solve the people's food problem without fail by thoroughly implementing the Great General's policy a nd decisively increasing agricultural production this year.
The decision specifically elucidates the problems regarding measures to effect a new turn in agricultural production in 1997 in compliance with the intent of the Party. The decision points out that enormous efforts must be concentrated on grain productio n as a priority task to attain the goal of this year's grain production.
Towards this end, the decision stipulates the following tasks:
The decision also stipulates that the right crop be planted at the right place in the right season, and that sowing and fertilizing are carried out properly, in the right season.
The decision stipulates specific production goals which the relevant agencies must attain by persistently carrying out the organizing work and by increasing the production of vegetables, cultivated tobacco leaves, livestock products, fruits, and cocoons.
The decision elucidates the issues which the ministries and commissions of the State Administration Council, plants, and enterprises must settle in producing and supplying such farming materials as fertilizer, pesticide, and oil as a top priority work, in securing the sufficient amount of water needed for farming this year, and in completely preventing drought and flood damages.
The decision indicates the tasks of fully mobilizing the whole country and all people to vigorously struggle to support the rural areas by labor and by materials and to plan the economic organizing work to effect a new turn in agricultural production.
The ministries and commissions of the State Administration Council, administrative and economic agencies of all echelons, plants, enterprises, and groups must brilliantly fulfill the fatherly leader's behest and the general's intent by planning administra tive and economic organizing work to implement the decision of the state administration council and by bringing about a decisive turn in agricultural production this year.