North Korean farmers in Hoeryong are protesting a current order to double evening patrols and arrange stationary guards to guard the corn harvest, calling it unrealistic. The order, issued final month by town’s agricultural administration committee, is geared toward safeguarding the autumn corn harvest, which started on Aug. 20.
In issuing the order, town’s agricultural administration committee mentioned the “key to making sure the utmost grain harvest is to forestall thieves from stealing the crop,” a supply within the province instructed The Day by day NK not too long ago, talking on situation of anonymity.
Nonetheless, when Hoeryong farmers obtained the order, they complained that rising patrol personnel wouldn’t scale back theft.
Farmers mentioned that with out state safety or compensation for accidents sustained whereas confronting thieves, nobody would threat guarding the crops successfully.
In reality, farmers on patrol will usually hold their distance in the event that they see villagers consuming meals within the fields at evening. Even after they know thieves have entered, they faux to not see them or sign them to not strategy through the use of a flashlight to level of their course, not the thieves, the supply mentioned.
“It’s because farm employees obtain small shares of the harvest, although the yields are excessive. Farm employees don’t have any sense of possession as a result of their share of the harvest is all the time disappointing, whatever the farm’s yield.
They may also be injured and even killed whereas patrolling to guard the corn, so that they take nice care to keep away from hurt as a lot as attainable.
Farm employees additionally complain about guarding the collective fields as a result of they fear about their very own non-public plots.
“Because the saying goes, ‘the pigeon’s thoughts is all the time on the soybean subject,’ so the farm employees additionally take care of their very own non-public plots even when they’re patrolling the collective fields,” the supply mentioned. “Even the state now has to confess that if the collective plots had been managed like non-public plots, yields would naturally improve.”
In accordance with a South Korean unification ministry report launched in February on “Consciousness of the Realities of North Korean Economic system and Society” primarily based on a survey of 6,351 defectors, corn was probably the most generally grown crop by these with expertise with non-public plots at 70.3%, adopted by soybeans at 63.5%, potatoes at 60.1%, and greens at 44.0%.
Most Hoeryong residents additionally develop corn on their non-public plots.
The Day by day NK works with a community of sources in North Korea, China, and elsewhere. For safety causes, their identities stay nameless.
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