Citizens Fight Over Feces to Fill Human Fertilizer Quota in North Korea
Competition for human feces has become cutthroat in North Korea, as authorities have burdened citizens with impossible collection quotas to prepare fertilizer for next year’s farming season.
In impoverished North Korea, farms are fertilized using human waste, and the government tasks every household with yearly collection quotas.
RFA reported in January, shortly after leader Kim Jong Un’s New Year’s address, that households were struggling to meet an impossible quota amounting to 100 kilograms (220 pounds) per able-bodied citizen.
If you have access to a source of poop in North Korea, I assume that you’re not going to simply flush it away, even if you had the infrastructure to give you that option.
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/nk-manure-quota-2020-10142019154836.html
If you have access to a source of poop in North Korea, I assume that you’re not going to simply flush it away, even if you had the infrastructure to give you that option.