The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that damaged crops due to the heavy flooding in North Korea could reach as much as 300 thousand tons.

The agency says the flood came in a critical time in the growth of rice and corn and that it hit particularly hard the provinces of South Pyeongan and Hwanghae, the country's major cereal-producing regions.

The FAO predicted that more than eleven percent of all rice and corn fields are flooded. The damage incurred by the heavy downpour total 26 thousand hectares of farmland in South Pyeongan, 20 thousand in South Hwanghae and 37 thousand in North Hwanghae province.

The UN agency also cited difficulty in making accurate assessments as the rain continues and farmlands are still under water.

It says that the country's harvest this year will depend on the weather of the upcoming months.