Impoverished North Korea Pushing For Rabbit Breeding To Stave Off Hunger
Komfie Manalo - All Headline News Foreign Correspondent Seoul, South Korea (AHN) - According to reports the reclusive communist regime of North Korea is reported to be encouraging its citizens to breed rabbits for food. The state's Korean Central News Agency on Wednesday quotes a government official which said that rabbits were "the most economically profitable domestic animals" for the mountainous country's limited arable land. The report adds, "Rabbit-breeding farms have been built to rapidly increase parent rabbits which have a high fertility rate, grow fast and produce much meat with less feed. Rabbits are being raised by collective and widespread methods at factories, enterprises, cooperative farms and schools, to say nothing of stock-breeding farms." Pyongyang has been suffering from acute shortage of food since the mid-1990s because of natural disasters and mismanagement of its economy. It was estimated that some 2 million people have died in the region because of famine. The country was hit by heavy floods in July, which are believed to have caused the loss of some 100,000 tons of food, deepening the chronic shortage.
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