One day in August several years ago, the respected General Secretary Kim Jong Un visited a farm machine exhibition. He stressed the need to produce a larger number of modern farm machines and parts and send them to the countryside, noting that the agricultural production can be rapidly increased while saving manpower only when the operating and utilization rate of farm machines are increased. In order to produce various kinds of modern and efficient farm machines and send them to the rural areas, the producers of them should bear in mind their duty of being the vanguard of agricultural mechanization and the awareness of being masters responsible for the country's grain production along with farmers, he said, adding that fertilizer is like ammunition and farm machines are like military hardware in the agricultural sector.