{"id":53084,"date":"2022-10-21T17:00:05","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=53084"},"modified":"2022-10-21T07:08:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T22:08:35","slug":"north-korea-dispatches-party-guidance-teams-watch-over-fall-harvest-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-dispatches-party-guidance-teams-watch-over-fall-harvest-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea dispatches &#8220;party guidance teams&#8221; to watch over fall harvest efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In early October, North Korea dispatched special teams made up of party cadres to collective farms across the country as part of efforts to prevent the loss of harvested crops.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a source in North Hamgyong Province last Thursday, the teams, called \u201cparty guidance teams,\u201d are composed of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">province, county, and city-level party committee workers, as well as members of people\u2019s committees, prosecutors\u2019 offices, and other important institutions.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The teams <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have been comprehensively identifying<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> problems with the fall harvest, and have been reporting on a daily basis to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">upper-level party committees<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> about their observations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, the reporting system is as follows: When farm work unit leaders (farm managers) report the daily volume of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">grain<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> harvested and threshed to the party guidance teams, the teams then report the amount of grain produced each day to county and city party committees. The county and city party committees then report these figures to the provincial party committees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt\u2019s rare to see party guidance teams having a mix of members from so many different institutions,\u201d the source said. \u201cIf the teams are composed of members from a single institution, it\u2019s possible for bribery or some other kind of corruption to crop up. That\u2019s probably the reason why the authorities have sent out teams made up of members from different institutions.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Based on the source\u2019s account, party guidance teams were dispatched to collective farms in Hoeryong, North Hamgyong Province, on Oct. 5. The officials have been surveying the work units and assessing the results of the day\u2019s rice harvest and threshing on a daily basis.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The party guidance teams are checking the attendance rates and output of work unit members. The teams also come out in the evenings to watch over the threshing floor until the day\u2019s work is finished. Daily NK\u2019s source explained that officials are guarding the threshing floor to prevent farmers from siphoning off grain during the threshing process.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a common practice on North Korean collective farms to buy pigs, goats, and dogs on credit for the farmers to eat during the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spring corn planting and rice transplanting seasons. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The farms then pay back this debt with corn and rice harvested in the fall. With a portion of the crop yields going to repay this debt, yields drop by dozens or even hundreds of kilograms below the initial amount of crops harvested.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Essentially, the party guidance teams are watching over the threshing floors until late at night to prevent farmers from siphoning off crops to use to pay back the debts. This has put farm managers in a tough spot.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe custom of paying for the cost of purchasing livestock through credit with crops harvested in the fall is aimed at encouraging farmers to work hard,\u201d the source said. \u201cWith party guidance teams watching over the threshing process, farmers are concerned about how they\u2019ll pay back the debts, even complaining that the only thing their loyalty to the government will leave them is debt.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many farmers are expressing unhappiness because they feel like they will have to carry this year\u2019s debts until next autumn, the source added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Rose Adams.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20221013-3\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In early October, North Korea dispatched special teams made up of party cadres to collective farms across the country as part of efforts to prevent the loss of harvested crops.\u00a0 According to a source in North Hamgyong Province last Thursday, the teams, called \u201cparty guidance teams,\u201d are composed of province, county, and city-level party committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133,"featured_media":38140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,869],"tags":[123,295],"class_list":["post-53084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-agriculture","tag-farming","tag-crime"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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