The government has completed overland shipment of fertilizer aid to North Korea.

The shipment is part of 200,000 metric tons of fertilizer the country pledged to the North at last week's inter-Korean talks.

At the meeting, Seoul promised to deliver ten-thousand tons overland and the remainder by ship.

The last convoy of trucks headed for the North's border town of Gaeseong on Saturday.

It is the first overland delivery of fertilizer aid since the government frst donated such aid to the North in 1999.

The unusual step of overland delivery was necessitated by North Korea's appeal for the aid to arrive in time for its sowing season.

The maritime transport of the remaining fertilizer will continue through mid-June.