Specification of Cooperative Farms in North Korea for Agricultural Cooperation of South and North Korea

The actual management conditions of cooperative farms in North Korea are relatively well known. There are many research materials and data about structure reorganization of cooperative farms in North Korea, but it is little related about specification of cooperative farms for food production and cooperation of South and North Korea. If it is possible to cooperate with North Korea, it is good to apply South Korea's agro-technology. Cooperative farms are also suitable for making a model farm such as rice-model farm and production model-farm of seed potatoes. Model farms can be used as educational centers to transfer agro-technology to its leading class and farmers in North Korea. If the project of agricultural cooperation toward North Korea would drive forward before careful examination about agricultural conditions of different agroecological zones and cropping systems, the results of the project would be great effective. If we only would cooperate with the North Korean government agency, and support our research facilities in its suitable field together with our special agriculturalists, it is possible to extend cooperation to promote cooperative farms in North Korea toward for their own characteristics. Cooperative farmers are familiar with collaborate production and collaborate allotment. It would be effective to introduce the sense of competition about agricultural products with its agricultural working units while it needs to specify production kinds of crops on cooperative farms. It would be a good way to allow the disposal of surplus products over allocated amount at their disposal in order to increase crop production in cooperative farms. Of late, NGO's support for North Korea seems to lean upon the area near Pyongyang and near South Korea. But it seems to be important to enlarge, through conversation with North Korea, the area and diversify items to support. In the initial support of farm machinery, in spite of the latest and high price farm machinery, it is advisable to support manual operative or semi-automatic farm machinery that suit the agricultural circumstances of North Korea. It is important to give support by stages, continuing the present support of food such as rice. In the long view, North Korea needs to be supported in order to reform their agricultural structure for the creation of farm earnings, not only giving support for merely food production.