A whole-people campaign was launched to help rice seedling transplanting, a most labor consuming farming aspect, involving armed forces, government employees, urban workers, and students. Marshal Kim Jong Il went out of his way on June 6 to express thanks for agricultural workers and volunteers for succcessful rice seedling transplantation and asked them to conduct effective weeding and other farming work to produce a bumper harvest. The fifth is a program to breed goats which requires little labor and attention as compared with pig and cattle. Currently approximately the number of goats is approximately 300,000 across the country, twice the figure two yearsago. The ambitious plan calls for expanding grassland for grazing goats from the present 120,000 hectares to 800,000 hectares in five years in a bid to domestically meet the nation's need for milk and meat.
Goats provide good milk and meat at little cost and very handily.
This goat breeding policy is intended to turn grass into meat and milk. Pig and cattle breeding requires lots of pens and a huge amount of imported feed. Fiftly, mushroom growing, fish farming, and vegetable cultivation have been encouraged to diversify farming production. They are also good foreign currency earners. These five steps are physical, while the sixth is a landmark policy decision to offer a significant economic incentive to farmers to stimulate their enthusiasm for redoubled production.