For North Korea's food this year, South Korea reported a 7% increase compared to the previous year, while the United States reported a decrease of 40,000 tons.
The Rural Development Administration announced on the 16th that North Korea's food crop production in 2021 was estimated at 4.69 million tons, a 7% increase from last year's 4.4 million tons.
According to the US Department of Agriculture's 'Rice Outlook: December 2021', North Korea's forecast of 1.36 million tons of rice production for the 2021-2022 year after milling is down 38,000 tons from 1398,000 tons last year. On the 14th, Voice of America (VOA) reported.
According to the estimate of the Rural Development Administration, rice production increased by 7% to 2.16 million tons, corn production increased by 5% to 1.59 million tons, and potatoes and sweet potatoes increased by 7% each to 570,000 tons. said with
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's economic survey service survey report revealed that North Korea was "a country with an increase in rice imports next year."
The US Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) predicted that North Korea's agricultural situation evaluation report on October 4 predicted that this year's grain production would be lower than the previous year, VOA reported.
As a result of analyzing the crop conditions in North Korea in 4 stages from July to August by using the NDVI calculation method using the red and near-infrared wavelengths of the satellite image of 'Beyond Division', a website operated by CSIS, the crop yields in some regions decreased sharply. “During this period, more than 60% of agricultural land in Jagang, Gangwon, Raseon, and Yanggang provinces were in ‘bad’ and ‘poor’, the lowest level.”
Switzerland's International Agricultural Monitoring Group (GEOGLAM) announced the North Korean food outlook in the 'Early Warning Crop Monitoring' on September 2, saying, "North Korea is currently harvesting corn and rice is still growing." "The overall condition is good." .
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service announced on July 28 that in the report of the "International Food Security Assessment 2021-2031", "16.3 million, or 63.1 percent of the 25.9 million North Korean population, are exposed to food shortages."
In August of the previous year, this report revealed that “15.3 million people, or 59.8% of the total population of North Korea, are estimated to be short of food in 2020,” and it was estimated that the number of people in shortage this year would increase by 1 million compared to the previous year.