{"id":56384,"date":"2023-10-05T16:25:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T07:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=56384"},"modified":"2023-11-10T08:36:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T23:36:42","slug":"n-koreas-amended-agriculture-law-strengthens-role-of-individual-farmers-in-sub-workteams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/n-koreas-amended-agriculture-law-strengthens-role-of-individual-farmers-in-sub-workteams\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea&#8217;s amended agriculture law strengthens role of individual farmers in sub-workteams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">North Korea recently amended parts of its Law on Agriculture that pertains to the so-called \u201csub-workteam management system.\u201d The amendments strengthen the role of the individual within the sub-workteams.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The sub-workteam management system aims to prevent lower productivity on socialist collective farms resulting from large-scale workteams by dividing the workforce into smaller production teams of 10 to 25 people.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In early August, North Korea announced that the Standing Committee of the Supreme People&#8217;s Assembly had altered the sub-workteam management system when it amended the Law on Agriculture on Aug. 3, sparking speculation that the country had begun abolishing the system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last Thursday, a Daily NK source in North Korea said that the law\u2019s reform \u201callowed the adoption of the Individual Contract Work System within the sub-workteam management system\u201d and was \u201caimed at boosting productivity of basic agricultural work units and improve the system.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In short, the reform appears aimed at boosting food production through the motivation of farm workers by clarifying their individual domains, roles and responsibilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Starting in 2019, North Korea introduced the Individual Field Responsibility System on a trial basis at several farms in Hyesan, Yanggang Province and elsewhere. This system allowed private individuals to cultivate land on their own and led to partial improvements in productivity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">North Korea now appears to be moving in earnest to take this trial program nationwide after farmers responded well to it. There are even those who claim that the country may be taking steps to implement a private farming system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That being said, the system may have difficulties boosting farmers\u2019 motivation to work. According to the source, farmers must receive an exact share commensurate with the work they individually put into production and cultivation, but this part of the reform remains weak.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cYou have to allow the people doing the farming to take more and sell it,\u201d the source said. \u201cYou won\u2019t encourage enthusiasm for work if you let the people doing the farming take only a bare minimum and give them no authority over calculating shares.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In fact, when the Individual Field Responsibility System was adopted, farmer motivation did seem to improve, but farm workers were not always given the share they were promised and corruption arose in the distribution of shares. Food production barely increased as a result.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">North Korea also appears to be trying to improve rural conditions and social perceptions of the countryside to bring more people to agricultural communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe state is building agricultural housing to improve the lives of farmers and helping so that more young people volunteer to live in agricultural communities,\u201d the source said. \u201cThe government\u2019s trying to improve the negative social perception of agricultural communities held by people in the cities and elsewhere throughout the country and industrialize farming workplaces with a view to resolve the country\u2019s food-related issues.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Translated by David Black. Edited by Robert Lauler.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<p><em>Daily NK works with a network of sources who live inside North Korea, China and elsewhere. Their identities remain anonymous due to security concerns. More information about Daily NK\u2019s reporting partner network and information gathering activities can be found on our FAQ page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/faq\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/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\/20230921-6\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Korea recently amended parts of its Law on Agriculture that pertains to the so-called \u201csub-workteam management system.\u201d The amendments strengthen the role of the individual within the sub-workteams.\u00a0 The sub-workteam management system aims to prevent lower productivity on socialist collective farms resulting from large-scale workteams by dividing the workforce into smaller production teams of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":42469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,869],"tags":[123,710,1656],"class_list":["post-56384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-agriculture","tag-farming","tag-food-shortages","tag-dprk"],"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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