ECONOMIC - AGRICULTURE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600240268-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 268
• Publication Date: July 14, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY i6orth Koran
SUBJECT $conpmic -Agriculture
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THiS 15 IFNEVAIJAT?D INFOI2MAT10N.
AQtICfILTURE THRTPffi Ift ftCHtTH gOASA
k!~7E SGPPIS' OF II"..ctlll.'7..F.It -- T'u~sa Sin-mun, 6 Apr 49
An ample supply of fertilizer Se cvailable In ftorth &u~ea fcr this
year's spring eavix~. Th1e vas due tc the increased prodactiaa of chemical
fertili~cr. The Ha* ;nam Fertilizer .~lanufeaturing"Gompaav, fur inetaaoo,
as early ae lb Hovembar had attained 106 percent of the 1948 annual pro-
duction quota for t:; fbople'e Economic PL-u.
Beside the increased production, the distribution vns greatlj a1.Aed
ty the hearty cooperation rendered by the railroad workers who treaepaz'ted
the product es rapidly as possible from the fnotory to the farmer so that
the fertilizer vuuld be ready for the spring sowing.
Ae of 20 l+hrch 1949, the citg of Pyongyang had euppl.ied the farnare
vlth 104 percent of the city's quota of fertilizer for the first quarter
of the year. As of tho same date, fturth Sores as a whole Bupglied the
full percentage of the monthly quota far that month. "
PR011[ICTION OF SPRING CCCOOlaS -- Haanghae Inminpo, 9 APr 49
In as effort to prcmota the eiln I1luueti`;j of No:"th gorse, an all=~
prepares+,ion far production of -prtng cocooae is being made by the farmers
in the I~aen$~ong-ni, Soch'on-myoa, Samoh'on-gun, in Huanghae-do, which is
one of the important Bilk centers in ftorth gorse.
Women play the mayor role in the sericulture industry of this vil].ege.
To attain the annual production quota of 15 ahneta of agga asoi~c4 >~ the
cocoon-raising center in this village, the village women made 600 pisaee of silk
norm screen and 600 pieces of sil'~vorm net. Farty pieces each of eoreun
and net are required to raise eilkiarmB hatched from each etieet. of eggs.
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on ? ecroa of aulborry field; gnd fiye dflye later carried 13500 kilt+grame