School, a good rabbit breeder

The Songgan Middle School in Songgan County, Jagang Province is well known throughout the country for raising a lot of rabbits.

The school produces rabbit meat and fur by breeding over 10,000 rabbits every year.

It received thanks from President Kim Il Sung and leader Kim Jong Il for its laudable performance in raising rabbits.

Looking round the "rabbit park" of the school on August 31, 2000, Kim Jong Il praised a teacher for having a wealth of knowledge of rabbit growing before having a photo taken with her.

She is Ro Jong Sun, 48-year-old biology teacher, who is in charge of growing rabbits.

She thought that rabbit raising is the process of implementing the government policy of raising a lot of grass-eating animals in her mountainous village.

She formed a rabbit-breeding group and employed group and separate breeding methods, teaching schoolchildren how to raise rabbits.

Rabbits multiplied to thousands in a short time. There were a host of difficulties.

Lack of care will easily kill rabbits because they are sensitive to climatic change and liable to diseases.

She made in-depth study of how to prevent and treat rabbit diseases, while selecting good breeds.

She discovered symptoms and the cause of main diseases including virus haemorrhage and sore mouth and established treatment methods.

Besides herb medicines and disinfectants, she developed decoctions of medicinal herbs including roots of wild walnuts and pasque flowers and various medicines and used them to prevent and treat rabbit diseases. A fodder base of several hectares was built near the school and more rabbit hutches were built.

In the course of this, she acquired a rich stock of experience in breeding rabbits.

In November 2001 she presented study papers "Study on breeding rabbits at school" and "The amount of total fodder needed in raising 2,000 rabbits".

Her papers drew the interests of educational officials at the 17th national science and technology festival.

She was awarded doctorate.

She participated in the third meeting of pacesetters in the movement for winning the Three-Revolution Red Flag, the fifth national meeting of the Korean Children's Union, and the meeting for a general march in the Songun revolution.

Many people are visiting the school and greatly impressed by what she has done.

She tells them that if they buckle down to a difficult task with confidence, they can see the fruit of their efforts.