Gyeonggi Province has embarked on a cross-border project to help modernize North Korean agriculture.

The province’s delegation for inter-Korean exchanges and cooperation visited the North over the weekend and helped with rice planting on over one hundred hectares of rice paddies in Pyongyang.

Gyeonggi Governor Son Hak-gyu, who led the delegation, said the joint rice farming has made the inter-Korean cooperation more concrete.

He went on to say that the agricultural cooperation will not be limited to a region but expanded throughout the Korean Peninsula.

The province expects to harvest about 500 tons of rice from the joint farming project in October.

Some one-hundred people took part in the rice planting, including North Korean farmers, South Korean lawmakers Choi Sung and Yim Tae-hee and members of a South Korean civic group, Korean Sharing Movement.