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International Scientific Symposium on Potato Held
Pyongyang, July 24 (KCNA) -- An international scientific symposium on potato was held here on Monday and Tuesday. Present at the symposium were Kim Hyok Jin, vice-minister of Agriculture, officials concerned, and scientists, technicians and experts in the field of agriculture and representatives of the International Potato Center and different countries. The symposium discussed the theoretical and practical problems arising in putting the potato farming on a scientific and modern basis, increasing the potato production and widening its use. Ko Kum Hak, vice-president of the Academy of Agricultural Science, made an opening address which was followed by congratulatory speeches by Kim Hyok Jin and Regional Leader of the East and Southeast Asia and the Pacific of the International Potato Center Fernando N. Ezeta. The speakers expressed belief that the symposium would provide an opportunity to widely exchange advanced scientific and technological successes and good experience gained in different countries and thus make a great contribution to prosperity and development of each country and each nation and development of human civilization. The participants heard papers entitled "Potato farming and its prospect in the DPRK" and "Potato Research and Development Strategy for East, Southeast Asia and the Pacific." Then followed speeches made by scientists and researchers of the DPRK and other countries on the subjects of cooperation projects for potato cultivation, potato breeding, seed potato production, cultivation and insect pests of potato. A letter to leader Kim Jong Il was adopted at the symposium.
Sweet Potato Processing Factory Built
Pyongyang, December 4 (KCNA) -- Sweet potato has been used in people's dietary life in Korea since olden times. The demand for roast and processed sweet potatoes are increasing among people in Pyongyang and other parts of the country. A sweet potato-processing factory with an annual capacity of processing several-thousand tons has recently been built in North Hwanghae Province, which can produce processed sweet potato goods all the year round. The factory has succeeded in making sweet potato powder, thus turning out large quantities of sweet potato powder with all the nutritive ingredients as it has. Meanwhile, scientists in the foodstuff field succeeded in developing a new method of producing taffy with sweet potato powder and designed and manufactured equipment for producing cracker, dehydrated starch noodle and instant noodle.