North Korea will likely suffer bad harvests this year due to too little snowmelt and rainfall in recent months, according to a new World Food Programme (WFP) report, raising further concerns about food shortages in the country a year after it confronted a “food crisis.”
“Reduced production of both winter and spring crops” will notably affect the harvest of nearly half of the country’s potatoes, “an important lean season food,” the WFP said in the report released Wednesday.
North Korea will likely suffer bad harvests this year due to too little snowmelt and rainfall in recent months, according to a new World Food Programme (WFP) report, raising further concerns about food shortages in the country a year after it confronted a “food crisis.”
“Reduced production of both winter and spring crops” will notably affect the harvest of nearly half of the country’s potatoes, “an important lean season food,” the WFP said in the report released Wednesday.
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