(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) North Korea continued to buy fertilizer from China in bulk last month, data showed Friday, as the impoverished nation has revved up efforts to increase food production.
According to the data compiled by the Korean Rural Economic Institute (KREI) that, the North brought in 13,769 tons of Chinese fertilizer in February, a whopping 13 times more than some 1,064 tons from a year earlier, Yonhap news agency reported.
In the first two months of the year, Pyongyang imported 48,882 tons of Chinese fertilizer, which is far higher than 1,066 tons from the same period a year earlier, the data showed
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