North Korea introduced excrement quotas for citizens, special coupons are given for their fulfillment: why is it needed

North Korea is struggling to find enough fertilizer for its crops. The state now encourages people to make dung from their own excrement on their own, reports INSIDER.

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Reports say North Korea is asking its citizens to use their own faeces to produce manure as the country faces widespread food shortages.

Workers use human excrement to meet their manure production quotas.

The country has received agricultural fertilizers from China for a long time, but this trade, like trade in other goods, has ceased after North Korea closed its borders at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.

As a result, North Korea has declared receiving sufficient manure as the first "fight" of 2022. The state media also encourages people to make house dung. A source in North Hamgyong province said residents began "producing fertilizer from human waste" after authorities launched a 10-day campaign to increase production.

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Citizens were ordered to produce a quota of 150 kilograms of manure, and workers in state-owned enterprises were ordered to produce 500 kilograms between January 4 and 14.

In an attempt to incentivize people, North Korea has also introduced coupons that will only be issued to people who meet this manure production quota. Coupons allow people to trade in dung, the report said.

North Korea's Central Committee also briefly cut manure markets by one hour to give people time to produce it.

“In the end, the burden of collecting the fertilizers needed for agriculture fell on the shoulders of ordinary people,” the source said.

Aside from the shortage of manure, North Korea is also struggling to provide itself with sufficient food. In June, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un announced a "tense" food crisis, and in September called on North Koreans to find a solution to the "food problem."

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