{"id":47838,"date":"2021-02-26T15:00:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=47838"},"modified":"2021-02-26T06:54:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T21:54:05","slug":"onsong-tobacco-farm-decides-hand-over-some-farmland-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/onsong-tobacco-farm-decides-hand-over-some-farmland-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Onsong tobacco farm decides to hand over some farmland to farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While discussing ways to produce tangible results this year at the 4.25 Tobacco Farm (Onsong, North Hamgyong Province), which had suffered unprecedented financial difficulties due to the COVID-19 crisis, a work unit at a farm was reportedly given land and ordered to try farming different crops instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source based in the North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Monday that \u201cthe 4.25 Tobacco Farm in Onsong had performed poorly last year because they had been unable to export the cigarettes they made. As it was feared that this year would be a failure again, the workers made the bold decision after much discussion to provide land to a work unit on one of the farms for the farmers to farm on a trial basis.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, as exports were blocked by lockdowns due to COVID-19, the cigarettes produced at the Onsong tobacco farm last year have remained in storage. Moreover, as the cigarettes had not been cared for properly, over 50% of the products were spoiled by rotting, and even the ones that were left were no longer of first-rate quality. As such, farmers have been very distressed, as there is no guarantee that these products will be marketable even if a route for exports was to reopen in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_37374\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37374\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-37374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/KakaoTalk_20180820_145416264-696x449-300x194.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/KakaoTalk_20180820_145416264-696x449-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/KakaoTalk_20180820_145416264-696x449.png 696w, https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2018\/08\/KakaoTalk_20180820_145416264-696x449-651x420.png 651w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-37374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Various brands of North Korean cigarettes. \/ Image: Daily NK<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In response, tobacco farm managers met the <\/span>provincial rural management committee<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and other organizations multiple times to discuss whether a profit could be made by producing and selling other crops from the farmland instead.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While they had been hesitant to make a decision, one farm decided to allot the relatively richer 30% of their farmland to produce tobacco crops, while the remaining 70% of the land would be given to farmers to farm.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;The land needed to be distributed as soon as possible so that the farmers could till the soil and prepare for their new crop, but because the decision was delayed, the land was distributed around the beginning of February,\u201d the source said, adding, \u201cAs this farm had already tried this type of farming a few years ago, they used this experience to distribute 200 <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pyong <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[661.1 square meters] of land to every farmer, regardless of age.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How much of the total yield from each farmer should be handed over to the government will be decided when the harvest begins in the fall.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agricultural authorities have recommended other farms to adopt similar farming methods in order to prevent last year\u2019s poor harvest from reoccurring, but other farms have opposed distributing land to farmers, the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Farmers are complaining that farm managers are opposing the measure to hand out farmland because they believe there will be less crops they can steal in the autumn,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Translated by Esther Ra<\/em><\/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-%ec%88%98%ec%b6%9c-%eb%a7%89%ed%9e%8c-%ec%98%a8%ec%84%b1%eb%8b%b4%eb%b0%b0%eb%86%8d%ec%9e%a5-%ed%86%a0%eb%a1%a0-%eb%81%9d%ec%97%90-%eb%b0%a9%ed%96%a5%ec%a0%84\/\">Read in Korean<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While discussing ways to produce tangible results this year at the 4.25 Tobacco Farm (Onsong, North Hamgyong Province), which had suffered unprecedented financial difficulties due to the COVID-19 crisis, a work unit at a farm was reportedly given land and ordered to try farming different crops instead. 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