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＜Inside N. Korea＞ Order to Abolish All Hidden Fields : Farmers Fear Starvation as Ban Begins 2021.05.11 A woman carries a number of logs that look twice her height, probably cut from the mountains to sell as firewood. Photographed in South Hwanghae Province in August 2008 by Shim Wichon (ASIAPRESS).   The North Korean authorities have ordered the abolition of all private cultivated land in mountainous areas, known as Sotoji = small land, causing widespread anxiety among farmers. Our reporting partners investigated in several areas in the North　 ( Kang Ji-won / ISHIMARU Jiro). In North Korea, collective farming in a cooperative farm is the rule, but since the 1990s, when the economic crisis worsened, sotoji plots have spread across the country. Not only farmers, but urban suburban residents as well, would clear slopes in the mountains to cultivate the small plots on their own.

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