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Pride of Scientist

Doctor and Associate Professor Kim Sang Chol, Section Chief of the Agricultural Chemicalization Institute under the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, is well-known as an expert on herbicide in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Some years ago, he completed the book "Grassland Blight Album" which is of national-treasure significance.
The book compiles more than 490 photos of over 190 major diseases breaking out on large-scale grass fields and more than 810 photos of over 300 major harmful insects--more than 1,300 photos of blights of over 490 kinds in total, photos of feed crops of 18 kinds and methods of exterminating major blights. It is widely used at scientific research and agricultural production units.
Kim Sang Chol has also made over 50 technical findings and inventions conducive to the agricultural development of the country over the past 10-odd years.
In 2024, he developed a completely homemade seed coating agent capable of preventing underground harmful insects and damage by birds and a mixed herbicide highly efficacious for the weeding of rice paddy. In recent years he has consecutively developed and introduced different kinds of agrochemicals needed in the agricultural practice.
It is his goal to further extend the duration of efficacy of herbicides, which dispenses with the weeding of paddy and non-paddy fields in the future.
Kim Sang Chol selects new research projects, always saying that a scientist should find his or her pride and goal of life in making efforts to relieve the state of its cares.