State television touts mechanized farming while blackouts force workers to thresh by hand

State television touts mechanized farming while blackouts force workers to thresh by hand

As farmers around North Korea wrap up the fall harvest, most farms in Ryanggang province have been unable to use their threshing machines because of a lack of electricity, forcing workers to connect small threshers to tractor engines or thresh rice by hand. “While farms throughout the province are busy threshing the rice, power outages prevent farmers from running their normal threshers and… Source

State television touts mechanized farming while blackouts force workers to thresh by hand - The Press United

As farmers around North Korea wrap up the fall harvest, most farms in Ryanggang province have been unable to use their threshing machines because of a lack of electricity, forcing workers to connect small threshers to tractor engines or thresh rice by hand. “While farms throughout the province are busy threshing the rice, power outages […]