Food production has fallen this year in isolated, nuclear-armed North Korea, according to the U. N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization. Rice and corn are t
SEOUL – Food production has fallen this year in isolated, nuclear-armed North Korea, according to the U. N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization.
Rice and corn are the North’s main staples, but rice output was expected to be below average because of erratic rains and low irrigation supplies, the FAO said in its quarterly Crop Prospects and Food Situation report.
Unfavorable weather conditions also diminished corn yields, it added.
As a result the country would need to import 641,000 tons of food in the coming year, up from 456,000 tons this year, when it bought 390,000 tons and received 66,000 tons in food aid.
