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Date : January 12, 2019
State orders farmers to supply more food to the military
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State orders farmers to supply more food to the military


The North Korean authorities have ordered collective farms to supply all of the planned food quotas to the military following a failure by the government to secure the supplies via its regular procedures, according to sources inside North Korea.

The North Korean government and the nations farmers have long harbored issues over food supplies. The governments aim is to increase the volume of rice that farmers sell while farmers try to retain as much food as they can. However, tensions had subsided until recently due to an overall increase in food production to around 5 million tons over the past four years.

Due to various factors, this years harvest has been lower than expected and food supplies for the military are consequently insufficient. This has led the authorities to mobilize government agencies like the Prosecutors Office to ensure that farmers are compelled to sell the required volume of produce to the government (at significantly below-market prices).

Production fell due to floods and droughts last year, so government purchases of rice for the military didnt happen on time. The authorities have turned to the states legal apparatus to force the farmers to fulfill the quotas they are required to sell to the government to make up for the shortfall, a source in South Pyongan Province told Daily NK on January 7. ......

[ Source: Daily NK]


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