More than 9.8 Million Trees Planted in Cyclic Felling Areas and Treeless Places

Pyongyang, May 22 (KCNA) -- The North Hamgyong Provincial Forestry Management Bureau in the DPRK directs efforts to tree planting and conservation while increasing the timber production, true to the resolutions of the plenary meetings of the Party Central Committee.

Officials and workers of the bureau have planted more than 9.8 million trees this year.

Officials are keeping the balance between timber production and tree planting and consolidate their material and technical foundations while solving problems arising in tree-planting and manuring and tending.

The Kyonghung Forestry and Afforestation Station has built a tree nursery of tens of hectares in the area behind the logging of the cyclic felling area and introduced scientific and technological data related to securing of seed, sowing and manuring and tending of trees and advanced experience to raise good species of saplings.

Officials and workers of the Kyongwon and Onsong forestry and afforestation stations planted more than 1.4 million trees and over 620 000 trees respectively in the cyclic felling areas and in treeless places.

Meanwhile, the Kyonghung and Onsong mine timber production stations are striving to plant many trees in the felling areas and raise their survival rate.

The provincial forestry management bureau is also pushing ahead with the work for protecting and tending forests.

The same is true of the Yonsa Forestry and Afforestation Station and the Hoeryong Mine Timber Production Station. -0-