North Korea has begun raising black swans to feed its population as the country struggles to address a crippling food shortage, according to BusinessInsider.
The nation has long struggled to maintain its food reserves, but the crisis has worsened recently after typhoons destroyed crops and the country closed its borders to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
The state media said a new swan breeding plan would help alleviate the crisis. “Black swan meat is delicious and healthy. “, said the official government newspaper Rodong Sinmun.
According to the newspaper, Ri Jong Nam, the party’s chief secretary in South Hamgyong Province, opened a black swan breeding center on October 24 on the country’s east coast. The plan to raise swans was first conceived in early 2019, according to North Korea’s monitoring site NK News.
“The solution is aimed at addressing both the failure of large-scale agriculture to ensure adequate food supplies for the entire country, and the more recent government restrictions on COVID-19, which have largely blocked imports of food and other products from early 2020 “, wrote Colin Zwirko, senior analyst correspondent at NK News, about the swan project.
In June, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un declared a food crisis “tense” and in September urged North Koreans to come up with solutions to the “food problem”, according to NK News.
It seems that the price of some goods in North Korea has risen sharply as a result of the crisis. In June, a kilogram of bananas cost the equivalent of $ 45, NK News said.
In early October, a United Nations expert said the food shortage was precarious, according to Reuters.
While swan meat is not easy to find in the United States and much of Europe, it has not always been so.
Contemporary records suggest that swan meat was an acceptable ingredient in France in the 1300s, in Victorian England, and in North America in the 18th century.
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