South Hwanghae province authorities have ordered farm management committees to submit year-end reports on the implementation of farm management, following a series of lectures and conferences for farm leaders across the province. Farm management chiefs and technical heads attended a three-day event starting Sept. 9, indicating a province-wide initiative to evaluate and possibly improve farm management.
According to a source in the province recently, provincial officials told farms to meet government targets this year while determining how well they manage themselves, urging them to “thoroughly eliminate” lax management.
In particular, the province told farm officials that they had work to do even after the harvest and subsequent crop sales and distribution of shares. It instructed farm management committees to submit plot-by-plot reports for each sub-workgroup detailing how farms implemented the sub-workgroup management system between spring and fall, as well as how sub-workgroups implemented the individual field responsibility system and the results.
The province also reemphasized the principle of properly calculating the working hours of individual farm workers and accurately compensating them with a share of the fall harvest according to their efforts.
“South Hwanghae province authorities mentioned all these issues at the recent meeting, stressing that the most important thing is the unconditional implementation of this year’s state plans,” the source said. “It said that the province plays an important role in national grain production, and if it were to fall behind, other national economic tasks would be difficult to accomplish, so the province won’t give an inch in implementing the state plans.”
In fact, South Hwanghae province authorities said they would scrutinize this year’s farm production and management from several angles, and asked the farms to bear this in mind and submit carefully written reports explaining their scrutiny in detail.
“The administrative officials, such as heads of farm management committees and technical chiefs, who attended the meeting said it was the longest and most noisy meeting they’ve ever attended, but the only point was to hammer home that farms must unconditionally meet the state’s grain production targets,” the source said.
“Some also said the meeting was the province’s way of getting farms to increase grain production, even by a single kilogram, knowing full well that meeting the state’s grain production targets will prove difficult.”
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October 02, 2024 at 11:33AM
by DailyNK(North Korean Media)