Anchor : It is known that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has given up the sub-workteam management system ( fireworks responsibility system ) that he ambitiously pursued in the early days of his power . According to the decision of the 8th 7th Party Plenary Meeting (February 26-3.1) that changes must be made within the socialist agricultural system, collective farming will be fully implemented, according to local sources . This is North Korea's inside news , reporter Son Hye-min's report .
A source in North Hwanghae Province, who contacted Radio Free Asia from the border area of North Pyongan Province, reported on the 3rd, “ With the farming season approaching, there is no cooperative farm in Bongsan-gun that implements the field responsibility system . ”
A source said, “Starting this spring, the farm authorities are urging farmers to abolish the paddy responsibility system and follow the sowing of wheat and barley seeds in a collective farming method, followed by cleaning the beds. ”
The paddy responsibility system reduces subgroups, which are the lower end unit of cooperative farms, from 20 people to 3 to 5 family units , distributes farmland to subgroup farmers, and farms responsibly from sowing to harvesting. refers to a farming method that distributes
The field responsibility system, which was partially introduced in 2003 , brought positive responses as farmers were able to autonomously dispose of excess production excluding the amount paid by the government . However, when phenomena contrary to the functioning of the socialist planned economy occurred, such as the occurrence of a gap between the state price and the market price, North Korea suspended the grain responsibility system in 2005, saying that it would implement the grain monopoly system and restore the national food distribution system .
The paddy responsibility system, which was introduced again after the launch of the Kim Jong-un regime in 2012 to solve the food problem, was expanded nationwide in 2014 with the promulgation of the revision of the 'Farm Law', which allows cooperative farms and farmers to autonomously set the price and sale of agricultural products. . However, as most of the in-kind grains farmed by farmers under the paddy responsibility system were forcibly collected under the pretext of state payment and military rations, farmers' grievances grew .
The source added, “As more and more farmers refused the paddy responsibility system, which left them with nothing after farming hard, the farm authorities leased farmland to individual donju to carry out grain planning to be dedicated to the state . ”
Individual donju who lease farmland hire farmers from cooperative farms to grow high-yielding crops such as watermelons and peanuts and sell them in the marketplace. With a portion of the proceeds secured, the cooperative farm purchases grain from the market in proportion to the planned amount that the cooperative farm should dedicate to the state, and returns it to the cooperative farm . The cooperative farm side explains that it is dedicated to the state .
The source said , “However, since the authorities secretly withdrew the paddy responsibility system and emphasized socialist collective agriculture from this year, the 8th 7th Party Plenary Meeting (2.26-3.1) called for finding and eliminating internal factors that negatively affect agricultural development . because it was emphasized . ”
In other words, the paddy responsibility system introduced for the purpose of increasing food production leads to aggravated public sentiment, and in particular, as the exploitation class structure in which individual donors hire farmers arises, the side effects of weakening the socialist system cause the North Korean authorities to abandon the paddy responsibility system. This is explained by internal factors.
On the same day, another source in South Pyongan Province also reported , “Each year in mid- February , Eunsan-gun distributed land to farmers under the paddy responsibility system, but this year, there are no cooperative farms implementing the paddy responsibility system . ”
According to the source, the paddy responsibility system, which was introduced in earnest in 2014 in Eunsan-gun , distributes 1,500 pyeong to 2,000 pyeong of farmland per subgroup farmer . It is known that when it comes to solving means and fertilizers, grains harvested in the fall were distributed in a ratio of 4:6 or 5:5 .
The source said , “However, even when the grain yield per Jeongbo declined due to drought and floods, the authorities demanded that the farmers unconditionally pay the national payment and took away all of the rice and corn before threshing, and the farmers were angry. ”
The source said , “However, in the decision of the 8th 7th Party Plenary Meeting (February 26-3.1) presided over by Supreme Dignity, the fact that the paddy responsibility system was not mentioned at all while emphasizing the transformation of agricultural production is an acknowledgment of the failure of the paddy responsibility system. ” claimed .