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North Korea farming remains one of the regime’s most persistent vulnerabilities, with chronic food insecurity rooted in poor soil, outdated infrastructure, ideological constraints on agricultural reform, and the ongoing tension between collective farming and the individual responsibility system. Daily NK covers North Korea farming through reports on harvest conditions, seasonal mobilizations, fertilizer and equipment shortages, agricultural policy directives from Pyongyang, and the ground-level reality facing farmers across the country’s provinces. Our in-country sources provide some of the most detailed and timely reporting on North Korea’s agricultural situation available in English.

North Korean farm officials lease state land for double profits as...

Farm officials in North Korea's Jagang province are leasing portions of state-owned agricultural land to private individuals for a fee, a scheme that allows...

Break-ins hit South Hamgyong villages during planting season as police do...

A wave of break-ins is sweeping rural areas of South Hamgyong province in April as thieves exploit the spring planting season to target homes...

ASF resurges in North Korea, pushing pork prices higher and exposing...

African swine fever (ASF), a highly contagious and often fatal viral disease in pigs for which no vaccine currently exists, is spreading again across...

North Korean farmers ditch food crops for cash crops as market...

North Korean farmers in parts of North Pyongan province are increasingly abandoning staple food crops on their private plots in favor of higher-value cash...

North Korea factories join spring foraging scramble, squeezing out ordinary people

As spring foraging season gets underway across North Korea, workers from state-run food factories have joined the annual race for wild mountain vegetables. Their...

North Korean students mobilized to farm school land as rations dry...

North Korean students have barely settled into the new school year before being pulled out of class to expand school farmland plots, with parents...

North Korea fuel prices surge 20% as Iran war squeezes oil...

North Korea's market prices have surged for the second consecutive month, with fuel costs leading the way as gasoline and diesel prices each jumped...

Fight breaks out at North Hamgyong farm over access to non-arable...

Desperate to supplement their income, North Korean farm workers in North Hamgyong province are coming to blows over access to non-arable plots of land...

North Korea hands out Russian flour for Kim Jong Il’s birthday

North Korean authorities distributed wheat flour imported from Russia to government agencies, army units, mines and other state institutions in Hamhung, South Hamgyong province...

North Korean farm worker penalized for submitting coal dust instead of...

A North Korean farm worker in Chongjin was publicly criticized by managers after submitting coal dust instead of proper manure, and he was warned...

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