From Empty Envelope to Rich
Several decades ago, there was a farm recorded as “empty envelope farm” on the workmemo of President Kim Il Sung.
It is Jangchon Vegetable Farm of Sadong District.
The President devoted great efforts to turn the farm, which had been called “pultongchon” as it was a reddish muddy land unfavorable for farming, into a thriving one.
When he visited the Jangchon village in a suburb of Pyongyang for the first time, the President heard that the girl agricultural engineer had received an empty envelope at the time of income distribution because of the poor harvest. Feeling so sad about it, he noted down every detail of the actual situation of the farm, and said he would be responsible for it.
Since then, the President made a ceaseless journey to it, regardless of all weather conditions and even on holidays. Repeatedly walking along the muddy lanes across the fields, he learnt about the farm, which had been accepted as a land only for foxtail millet or wild millet. On this basis, he turned it into a vegetable farm and led them for bumper vegetables.
This farm, which is associated with the warm love of President Kim Il Sung and the scrupulous guidance of Chairman Kim Jong Il, was newly born to be a model farm of socialist rural culture and a rich farm, under the great love of the respected Comrade Kim Jong Un.
