Farming
The total cropland of about 2.2 million hectares is overwhelmingly planted with grains, of which rice accounted for 30.1% in 1989-1990. Official data on cropland distribution and agricultural production are scanty and there are discrepancies in the methods of calculating the weight of rice (husked or unhusked). North Korea claims to have produced 10 million tons of grains in 1984. The grain output in 1989 was estimated at 12.04 million tons by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
Livestock and Fishing
The Korean War trend of increasing the share of livestock in the total value of agricultural output continued during the 1980s judging from the steady growth, which outpaced grain production. Cattle are raised in the mountainous parts of the two P'yngan provinces. Sheep and goats are kept in the rugged areas of the two Hamgyng provinces and in Yanggang and Kangwn provinces. Pigs and poultry are probably the most important types of livestock that are raised near P'yongyang and in North P'yngan and South Hwanghae provinces. The government is proud of its large chicken farms. According to a 1988 agreement with the UNDP North Korea was suppose to receive livestock aid from the UNDP. Along with some assistance in modernizing vegetable farms, fruit production and storage, rice cultivation, and construction of a fish farm and soil and plant experimental stations.There is a plan called the Third Seven-Year Plan that calls for attaining an annual output of 1.7 million tons of meat, 7 billion eggs, and 2 million tons of fruit by 1993.