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2010-03-09 China-Japan-Koreas

Norks Campaigning to Increase Farming Workforce

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Posted by Steve White 2010-03-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 I suppose they have to do something. The military traditionally does much of the planting and harvesting and with the army on "full alert", who is going to prepare the fields for planting?

Recent lifting of all restrictions on farmers markets might help keep kids on the farm if they can make some money but there have been reports of some destroyed stores of grain when prices were fiddled with by the government. If storage space must be rented and the return from the product can not meet the rent, it pays to get rid of the product and shed the rent payment.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-03-09 00:18|| 2010-03-09 00:18|| Front Page Top

#2 I would have thought that just about everyone with access to land in North Korea would have been into farming.

Posted by gorb 2010-03-09 00:32|| 2010-03-09 00:32|| Front Page Top

#3 A yes, the way to success: having a politruk tell you what, when, and where to plant.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-03-09 02:34|| 2010-03-09 02:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Lead by example? Are you kidding?!?

Posted by gromky 2010-03-09 05:52|| 2010-03-09 05:52|| Front Page Top

#5 like hunger isn't enough of a reason too farm, but I guess when you're starving it's hard too work a farm

Posted by chris 2010-03-09 07:49|| 2010-03-09 07:49|| Front Page Top

#6 Even when the French ran Haiti as close to a slave labor death camp, they knew that they had to feed their slaves *something*, even if it was just a minimum of rice and some locally caught dried fish. Still, when the slaves revolted, it was not a polite affair.

One can hope that if the Nork people revolt, they will be equally harsh on their masters.

Posted by Anonymoose 2010-03-09 08:42|| 2010-03-09 08:42|| Front Page Top

#7 sounds like the Khmer Rouge's softer cousin

Posted by Frank G 2010-03-09 09:51|| 2010-03-09 09:51|| Front Page Top

#8 Unlike the Khmer Rouge, the North Koreans are in it for the long haul, Frank. Besides, they've got their multigeneration concentration camps should they need additional labour battalions.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-03-09 12:02|| 2010-03-09 12:02|| Front Page Top

#9 gorb, the Ukrainians were the first to discover that being a peasant is no defense against starvation in a Communist state. Totalitarian regimes are really, really good at confiscating foodstocks, hidden or otherwise.

Posted by Mitch H. 2010-03-09 16:42|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/ 2010-03-09 16:42|| Front Page Top

#10 My history professor spent about 2 years in a reeducation camp in Hungary in the 1940s.

He told us about the tiny garden plots the Soviets allowed farmers for their own families. These plots provided 95% of the vegetables consumed in the country. The collective farms, of course, failed; why work hard for something you won't be able to profit from?

I suspect that Kim et al haven't even permitted a postage stamp sized veggie garden for anybody.

Posted by mom 2010-03-09 16:57|| 2010-03-09 16:57|| Front Page Top

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