The key to increase grain production

 2021.12.8.

Many anecdotes of President Kim Il Sung who regarded believing in the people as in Heaven all his life as his motto and kept working for the people were recorded in the days of his field guidance.

Among them is a story about the fact that he personally taught how to increase grain production to solve the food problem for the people and devoted his efforts to it.

The respected Comrade Kim Jong Un said:

"His was a noble life of a people's leader, who regarded ‘The people are my God' as his motto, applied it to his ideas and leadership and turned it into reality."

One day in September, Juche 65(1976) acquainting himself with the situation of a farm President Kim Il Sung came to know the fact that the rice yield had been falling every year in that area.

For good farming the officials and farmers in that farm raised seedlings well, transplanted them at proper time and gave enough fertilizers, so in the early days the rice appeared to be good but after a while the white wilt and other diseases were found. Thus in the autumn they would see lots of empty heads of grain and finally it ended with bad crop yield.

When the official briefed on this in detail, the great leader asked if they had used a lot of fertilizer.

The official explained that they had put more fertilizer than other farms because most of their farm land is sandy.

Then the great leader told an official that a large amount of fertilizer may cause rice-plant fever. He added that the commanding officers in the army would not be able to win the next battle if they did not examine how many shots had been spent and did not make up for the soldiers after the battle. And he continued as follows. In farming, too, we should be well aware of the regional characteristics and varieties and give proper fertilizer to them. Rice with excessive nitrogen looks very good at first because the fertilizer makes its stems thick, but in autumn the yield falls because phosphorus fertilizer and nitrogen fertilizer were not properly combined. If nitrogen fertilizer is used in large quantities, the overall physiological processes in the plant are not carried out properly, so that it is late to mature, and the base node increases so that it can easily fall by the rain wind and there will be a lot of empty heads of grain.

It made the official understand clearly the reason why grain yields had fallen despite the efforts made in the past.

The secret to increase grain production lies in relying on science and technology.

Upon receiving the instructions of President Kim Il Sung, the official deeply realized that it is the way to increase grain production to thoroughly meet the requirements of science and technology in farming.

Many years have passed since the day, but many stories about the love for the people of the President are told in the hearts of the Korean people as stories of eternal love for the people.