Unusually good harvests in North Korea this year will likely ease the North’s chronic food shortage.
 
A Chinese source familiar with food conditions in the North said the country suffered from floods in July, but it will have a five-point-three million ton crop yield.
 
The figure represents an increase of ten percent from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Food Program’s estimates for the North’s crop yields last year.
 
Another source in a border area between North Korea and China said with the rise in grain production, rice prices remained stable around the recent Chuseok holidays unlike previous years.