N. Korean leader calls for better productive farm crops

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has visited a farm, calling for the need to develop seeds that produce a higher yield, Pyongyang's state media said Saturday.

Kim inspected the "Farm No. 1116" under the control of KPA Unit 810, according to the Korean Central News Agency monitored in Seoul.

While visiting facilities on the farm, Kim called for more attention to efforts aimed at developing new crops that produce a higher output and the use of such high-yield seeds across the country, the KCNA said.

The North Korean leader visited the farm earlier in September when he ordered the establishment of a high-tech farming research institute, and ever since then, the farmers and researchers there have made progress in developing bumper-crop seeds in a short period of time, according to the state media.

Kim was accompanied by party, military and state officials, including Choe Ryong-hae, a vice chairman of the Workers' Party, the media report said. His latest visit came before the start of the Chuseok holiday. (Yonhap)