Impacts of Drought on Agricultural Production and Availability of Irrigation water in DPRK

In 2015, the Government State Committee for Emergency and Disaster Management (SCDEM) reported that nine percent of agricultural land became unsuitable for cultivation due to a prolonged drought in 2014/15. In 2015, total production in terms of cereal equivalent was 5.06 million tonnes which fell below the production level of 2014 (5.71 million tonnes) by 11 percent.