Floating rice plants and gardens are sprouting up in multiple parts of a Pyongyang river, pictures obtained from regular visitors and residents showed in June, confirming recent North Korean state media reports.

The floating rice crops and flowers, designed to provide local authorities a means to organically purify the river while increasing available surface area for farming purposes, have been spotted in several places along the city’s Pothong river.

“Floating paddy fields, a new test apparently, are everywhere, especially on the water around the War Museum – though not right up by Pueblo,” a regular Pyongyang visitor told NK News,