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By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com

SEOUL — North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has indicated that he would phase out equal distribution of farmers’ harvests and drive market economy-based competition and incentive in the country’s moribund agriculture sector.

In a letter distributed to farmers, Kim also stressed the need for expanding Chinese-style family-based farming as part of efforts to increase agricultural productivity, while ordering that farmers should not be mobilized for non-agricultural programs, according to Pyongyang’s state media.

“Egalitarianism in the realm of distribution is not matched with principles in socialist distribution and only discourages farmers’ production will,” Kim said.

He called for full implementation of the new farming system highlighted by small-scale farming, apparently alluding to the unproductive and inefficient nature of collective farms.

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