{"id":47135,"date":"2020-12-07T13:23:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T04:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=47135"},"modified":"2020-12-07T13:26:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T04:26:14","slug":"with-no-place-go-tobacco-attacked-mold-onsong-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/with-no-place-go-tobacco-attacked-mold-onsong-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"With no place to go, tobacco attacked by mold at Onsong farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tobacco produced by the 4.25 Tobacco Farm in Onsong, North Hamgyong Province, is rotting because the farm is unable to export its products abroad due to the closure of the Sino-North Korean border, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Friday that with nobody purchasing the tobacco produced and processed on the farm this year, farmers are waging a \u201ctearful battle\u201d each day as they reprocess the tobacco \u201crotting in the dampness, and stacked up in the middle of snowy fields.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, the 4.25 Tobacco Farm has long produced tobacco for official export to China, but exports have been set back this year with the border closed and trade suspended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The packaged tobacco has reportedly been stacked in the middle of the farm and covered with a plastic sheet as there are no warehouses to properly store it. With sleet falling on the field, mold has formed on the tobacco. Farmers are reportedly removing the packaging and cutting out the mold-infested sections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, the farmers are having a very difficult time because there seems to be \u201cno end\u201d to removing mold-infested parts on the tobacco.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThey reprocess and repackage the tobacco, but a few days later, there\u2019s more mold, so it\u2019s becoming a headache,\u201d said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity. \u201cThe farmers are saying all of it could rot by after the midwinter season.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37915\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37915\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37915\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/\u1107\u116e\u11a8\u1112\u1161\u11ab-\u1100\u1161\u1106\u116e\u11b7-\u1111\u1175\u1112\u1162-e1533523039862-300x158.png\" alt=\"North Korean farmers in August 2018 in North Hwanghae Province attempt to prevent drought damage\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/\u1107\u116e\u11a8\u1112\u1161\u11ab-\u1100\u1161\u1106\u116e\u11b7-\u1111\u1175\u1112\u1162-e1533523039862-300x158.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/\u1107\u116e\u11a8\u1112\u1161\u11ab-\u1100\u1161\u1106\u116e\u11b7-\u1111\u1175\u1112\u1162-e1533523039862-768x405.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/\u1107\u116e\u11a8\u1112\u1161\u11ab-\u1100\u1161\u1106\u116e\u11b7-\u1111\u1175\u1112\u1162-e1533523039862-1024x540.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/\u1107\u116e\u11a8\u1112\u1161\u11ab-\u1100\u1161\u1106\u116e\u11b7-\u1111\u1175\u1112\u1162-e1533523039862-696x367.png 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/\u1107\u116e\u11a8\u1112\u1161\u11ab-\u1100\u1161\u1106\u116e\u11b7-\u1111\u1175\u1112\u1162-e1533523039862-1068x563.png 1068w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/\u1107\u116e\u11a8\u1112\u1161\u11ab-\u1100\u1161\u1106\u116e\u11b7-\u1111\u1175\u1112\u1162-e1533523039862-796x420.png 796w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/10\/\u1107\u116e\u11a8\u1112\u1161\u11ab-\u1100\u1161\u1106\u116e\u11b7-\u1111\u1175\u1112\u1162-e1533523039862.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">North Korean farmers in August 2018 in North Hwanghae Province attempt to prevent drought damage. \/ Image: Rodong Sinmun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unwilling to throw away the tobacco it struggled to produce from spring to fall, the farm is desperately waiting for trade with China to open. Farm authorities, however, are at a loss at what to do. The farm also appears unable to provide rations to its farmers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFarm managers have held several emergency meetings to deal with the halt of tobacco exports through next year,\u201d said the source. \u201cWhen tobacco production for the year finishes, work begins on planting seeds for next year\u2019s production. This year, however, with the tobacco rotting and farmers unable to receive their rations, the farm is gathering opinions on whether it would be appropriate to even cultivate tobacco next year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Farm managers agree that if this year\u2019s situation continues into next year, everyone could starve to death. However, with the future unclear and the exact intentions of North Korean authorities impossible to know, the emergency meetings are producing little in the way of practical measures to deal with the issues at hand, the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source also noted that a growing number of farmers are suffering from frostbite to their hands and feet as they work in the wild highland fields in freezing temperatures of minus ten degrees.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"td-post-header\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%ec%bd%94%eb%a1%9c%eb%82%98%ec%97%90-%ea%b0%84%eb%82%9c%ec%8b%a0%ea%b3%a0-%ea%b2%aa%eb%8a%94-%ec%98%a8%ec%84%b1-%eb%8b%b4%eb%b0%b0%eb%86%8d%ec%9e%a5%eb%8b%b4%eb%b0%b0-%ec%8d%a9%ea%b3%a0\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tobacco produced by the 4.25 Tobacco Farm in Onsong, North Hamgyong Province, is rotting because the farm is unable to export its products abroad due to the closure of the Sino-North Korean border, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Friday that with nobody purchasing the tobacco produced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":37979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,645],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-economy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.8) - 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