{"id":53263,"date":"2022-11-16T16:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T07:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=53263"},"modified":"2026-04-05T15:16:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T06:16:48","slug":"yanggang-province-residents-roam-cities-to-collect-potato-peels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/yanggang-province-residents-roam-cities-to-collect-potato-peels\/","title":{"rendered":"Yanggang Province residents roam cities to collect potato peels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A growing number of residents of Yanggang Province are roaming around cities to collect potato peels, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK on Friday that \u201cmore and more people are going around Hyesan collecting potato peels this month.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said people suffering from food shortages are collecting the potato peels to \u201cmake up for their winter food shortfalls.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Yanggang Province \u2014 North Korea\u2019s chief potato-growing region \u2014 locals use potatoes in lieu of rice to make a variety of dishes. However, many families have not received potatoes due to this year\u2019s poor harvest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With problems arising even in potato distribution amid the already terrible economic hardships people have suffered since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, people living in urban outskirts have barely been able to prepare food for the winter. In these circumstances, people are gathering up anything edible they can get their hands on \u2014 potato peels among them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWith potatoes, you can make several kinds of dishes from them even if they are frozen or rotten. Potato peels, once washed and dried, can be turned into flour to make noodles or jelly [<em>muk<\/em>], \u201d said the source.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think this year is the first time since the Arduous March that people have been gathering up potato peels to eat,&#8221; he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Yanggang Province, people have traditionally turned potato peels into feed for animals such as dogs and pigs. This year, however, people are gradually turning to potato peels for human consumption, providing an indication of just how severe North Korea\u2019s food shortages are, the source explained.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In Hyesan, this phenomenon is most apparent in neighborhoods on the outskirts of the city such as Hyetan-dong, Masan-dong and Yonbong-dong, he added.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since early fall, some people have been going around to the homes of friends and family, asking them to gather up and give them their potato peels instead of throwing them away.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, the source said one resident of Masan-dong complained to him that: \u201cI never been so poor, no matter how difficult things were in the past. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I already feel like current conditions will soon starve my family to death, and with winter now here, I can\u2019t sleep at night. I\u2019m going around the homes of people I know downtown gathering up anything edible as soon as they appear, including potato peels and dried radish leaves, since at least we won\u2019t starve to death if something goes in our bellies, no matter what it is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The source said most of the people who live on the outskirts of Hyesan are street sellers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cBut with the authorities intensifying crackdowns on street commerce since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, their livelihoods have come under threat, and now they have to gather up potato peels. And even then, they are facing difficulties,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/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\/20221111-5\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A growing number of residents of Yanggang Province are roaming around cities to collect potato peels, Daily NK has learned. A source in Yanggang Province told Daily NK on Friday that \u201cmore and more people are going around Hyesan collecting potato peels this month.\u201d He said people suffering from food shortages are collecting the potato [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":38183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1360,67,645],"tags":[738,123,710],"class_list":["post-53263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-society","category-news","category-economy","tag-hyesan","tag-farming","tag-food-shortages"],"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>Yanggang Province residents roam cities to collect potato peels - North Korea News \u2014 Daily NK | Latest DPRK Updates 2026<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/yanggang-province-residents-roam-cities-to-collect-potato-peels\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yanggang Province residents roam cities to collect potato peels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A growing number of residents of Yanggang Province are roaming around cities to collect potato peels, Daily NK has learned. 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