North Korean leader Kim Jong Un officially opened the country’s largest greenhouse farm at a ceremony on Sunday, according to state media, vowing to build the biggest and most advanced greenhouse facilities in the world.

The Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Monday that Kim inaugurated the Sinuiju Combined Greenhouse Farm and Sinuiju Vegetable Science Research Center on a series of islands in the Yalu River bordering China. 

Kim said at the event that “it is the intention of the Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) to overtake the world not only in the size of greenhouse [farms] but also in