Number of Varieties of Products Characteristic of Regions Increases
At modern regional-industry factories in ４０ cities and counties as precious entities of our Party’s regional development policy, a strong drive is being waged to turn out special products emblematic of their regions in larger quantities on a high qualitative level.
Officials, workers and technicians of city and county foodstuff factories direct efforts to developing and producing characteristic foodstuffs relying on the materials available in their regions to prove successful.
The foodstuff factory in Kim Jong Suk County, over ９０％ of which is covered in forests, produces several processed goods with wild herbs abundant in the region to send them to commercial service networks.
Various wild herb picklings of the factory’s making are gaining popularity for their advantages to the health.
The factory also produces high-quality edible oil with wild sesame and sunflower seeds widely grown in their region, which also wins favor of the residents.
Kim Hyong Jik County, which didn’t benefit much from nearby mountains in the past, now develops and produces various specialties at the new modern foodstuff factory to the pleasure of the guests on study tours.
The pumpkin seed oil, in particular, is everyone’s favorite as it is efficacious against different diseases.
The Sinpho City Foodstuff Factory developed kelp tea good for people’s health and the Yomju County Fishery Processing Factory turned out twenty-odd new products including vacuum-packed short neck clams.
The processed seafoods from Hamju, Kumya, Onchon and Sukchon counties made by processing and packing fishes, shellfishes and seaweed from the East and West seas are popular even among citizens of the capital city.
Growing higher is the zeal for developing special products at the modern daily necessities factory newly built in the cities and counties.
The Jangphung County Daily Necessities Factory produces functional laundry soap from irises widely grown in their region.
Its counterpart in Kaephung District where lots of sedge plants grow produces different straw products to supply them to Kaesong Municipality and other parts of the country.
The plastic stools of the Songchon County Daily Necessities Factory and the black stonework of the Yomju County Daily Necessities Factory also enjoy popularity in different regions, to say nothing of the respective counties.
The garment factories in the cities and counties have defined the garment products suited to the weather conditions of their regions and the tastes of the residents as an exclusive index and make substantial efforts for increasing their varieties.
Officials and employees of the new modern regional-industry factories continue to put spurs to increasing the varieties of products characteristic of their regions, regarding it as an important link in the whole chain of the development of the units and regions and of the improvement of residents’ living standards.
Rodong Sinmun