President Kim Il Sung once visited a country.
Then he looked around a wheat field of rich harvest in a farm with the party leader of the country.
The party leader proudly told President Kim Il Sung, who looked at plump spikes of wheat on the endlessly-spread fields, that the farm was the best at wheat farming.
President Kim Il Sung said that the crop yield was high and sowing was good. He asked the party leader how many seeds were sowed per hectare. The latter told the President that he was in no condition to pay a specific attention even to farming and he would ask a secretary in charge of agriculture, and called the secretary. But the secretary said he was not sure and called one of his suite. The man was a chief engineer of the farm. He took a small handbook out of his pocket and answered President Kim Il Sung.
President Kim Il Sung picked a spike of wheat and peeled it on his palm. He asked the chief engineer how much nitrogenous fertilizer and phosphatic fertilizer were applied per hectare.
Having listened to him, President Kim Il Sung stooped over the soil to touch it. He said, if 80 kg of nitrogenous fertilizer per hectare makes spikes of wheat plump so much, it means the soil quality is good.
All accompanied people looked up to President Kim Il Sung with admiration, for they had never known that a leader of a country personally touched soil and had such a deep knowledge on farming.
The party leader told President Kim Il Sung, in an anxious tone, that farming could not be done at ease because of the cold front. Agreeing with him, President Kim Il Sung said that it was ascribed to the expanded area of iceberg in the Arctic region. The President explained the party leader in detail that the DPRK introduced 100% the practice of growing maize seedlings in humus-cakes and growing rice seedlings on cold frame to prevent influences of the cold front, maintained the principle of right crop on right soil in proper time and improved the cold and humid land, thus putting harvest on a safe basis.
Moved by President Kim Il Sung, the party leader asked the President when he acquired the farming method while managing the state, saying unreservedly that President Kim Il Sung was just like a real farmer. He was sorry for using an expression unsuitable to the President. He was surprised at how the President could master even farming.
President Kim Il Sung thanked the party leader for calling him a real farmer with a bright smile. He said only when one becomes a smelter at an iron works, a fisherman at sea and a real farmer at a farm, he can administer proper policy for his country.
The party leader was filled with indescribable impulse and charm for President Kim Il Sung.
