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 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.
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