NZ Friendship Farm
The 935 ha New Zealand Friendship Farm (Sambong Cooperative farm) is located in Phyongwon County, South Phyongan Province. The number of people living on the farm is 2,000 of which 1,200 are workers.
Some 750 ha is planted in rice each year plus a further 100ha in maize and potatoes. In addition, barley, beans and apples are grown as well as vegetables in greenhouses. Pigs, rabbits, sheep and goats are also kept. Goats are milked and the milk consumed by kindergarten children.
The workers are divided into 24 work teams and 109 sub-work teams.
N Z Friendship Farm Administration Building
Newly planted rice fields (May 2015)
Interplanted maize and potatoes
The high school on the cooperative serves the surrounding area and has 1,000 pupils
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High school class room
Music Class
The NZ Friendship Farm Medical Clinic handles 30 - 50 out patients per day and has six beds for in-patients. Simple surgery can be carried out, more serious cases are sent to a hospital.
The Kindergarten looks 190 after children 5 - 7 years of age.
A street in the residential village.
A private plot of inter-planted potatoes and maize beside a worker's cottage
Secretary of the NZ DPRK Society with members of the
NZ Friendship Farm Management Board
NZ DPRK Society donates tractors to Cooperative Farm in North Korea
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