North Korea

Improving Consumption of Milk and Dairy Produce inside Institutions for Children

Specific objective: Improve consumption of milk and dairy products inside institutions for children attached to Sariwon and Daeane farms.

Since the 80s, the complex crisis in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been impacting the national economy and deteriorating the population’s living conditions, particularly in terms of access to goods and services.

An unavoidable consequence of the crisis is lack of animal proteins in the population’s diet. This particularly affects children aged 0 to 6 years (11% of the population), whose nutritional needs cannot be covered. In DPRK, as social institutions habitually care for children of this age, lasting improvement of the children’s diet starts with helping the agro-food units dedicated to such institutions.

Hence, as with the program supporting fish farms, our main objective with this program is to lastingly improve the food safety of the vulnerable populations depending on the social institutions. To be more specific: we aim to strengthen the production of milk to cover the needs of 14,010 children in 191 institutions.

Initially, the project will seek to increase in quantity and quality production of animal food, identified as the main factor limiting milk production. We will subsequently work on the rest of the chain, reinforcing production, transformation, storage, transport and use of milk inside the institutions for children.

Triangle G H is working in close collaboration with the Breeding Department, a branch of the North Korean Agricultural Ministry, associated to this project.