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Korea welcomes start of the new year with manure production campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As usual, North Korea is pushing its people to produce manure in the early days of the new year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Friday that the authorities in Hoeryong ordered factories, enterprises and neighborhood watch units in the city to supply \u201c300 kilograms of manure\u201d per person as part of the &#8220;first campaign of the year.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, North Korea&#8217;s government issued a general mobilization order to each region late last year that 1) set the period of the first campaign of the new year and 2) called for the production of manure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea began last year\u2019s manure struggle campaign from Jan. 4, but this year, manure production efforts started two days earlier, on Jan. 2.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Many North Koreans are unhappy because, essentially, the government is inauspiciously \u201ctelling them to smell dung from the first day of the year,&#8221; the source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea has long imported fertilizer from China as domestically produced fertilizer is insufficient in both quantity and quality.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, the country has experienced trouble importing fertilizer since it closed the national borders in the wake of COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The authorities have, in turn, annually increased how much manure North Koreans must produce.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, in Hoeryong, local residents were told to produce 150 kilograms of manure per household in 2021, 200 kilograms in 2022 and 300 kilograms this year. Meanwhile, s<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">tudents were told to produce 200 kilograms per person &#8211; 50 kilograms more than last year. Not to be left out, w<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">orkers at factories and enterprises were told to produce 500 kilograms of manure per person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>As far as workers are concerned, the amount of manure demanded by the government is the same as last year; however, it is 200 kilograms more than quotas demanded by the regime before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;People are complaining more than ever because the authorities are raising manure quotas every year and urging manure production, even though it\u2019s hard to produce the stuff,&#8221; the source said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People are complaining even more about the large quotas due to rumors that provincial, city and county cadres will be going around to directly monitor manure production and reporting the results to the central government, he added.\u00a0<\/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\/20230106-4\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual, North Korea is pushing its people to produce manure in the early days of the new year.\u00a0 A source in North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK on Friday that the authorities in Hoeryong ordered factories, enterprises and neighborhood watch units in the city to supply \u201c300 kilograms of manure\u201d per person as part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":39449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,869],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-53710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-agriculture","tag-farming"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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