(News from 조선우표사 / Korea Stamp Corporation) On 20 March 2020 the Korea Stamp Corporation issued a sheetlet containing four different stamps showing “greenhouse vegetables”. The KSC stated: “The DPRK pays close concern to supplying the people with plenty of fresh vegetables all the year round.”
The text for this issued continued: “Taking seasonal characteristics into account, high-yielding and nutritious crops are selected to ensure sustained production, while hotbed and greenhouse cultivation is encouraged by radically increasing the number of modernly-equipped greenhouse. The sheetlet reflects some crops of the Pyongyang Vegetable Science Institute, a comprehensive vegetable science research centre in the DPRK.”
Stamps
The stamps designs are:
- 10 won stamp (sheetlet): Lycopersicon esculentum Mill
- 30 won stamp (sheetlet): Cucumis sativus L.
- 50 won stamp (sheetlet): B. oleracea var. f. rubra
- 70 won stamp (sheetlet): Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench
FDC
The accompanying FDC for the series:
Technical details
| 1. Sheetlet Date of Issue: March 20 Juche 109 (2020) Stock No.: 5240 Size: 100 x 150 mm, 31.5 x59.5mm (stamp), 30 x 45 mm (stamp) Denomination: 160 won Designer: Kim Hae Yong Printing: Offset Quantity: 10 000 (Perf.), 1 000 (Imperf.) | 2. FDC Size: 229 x 162 mm Designer: Kim Hae Yong Quantity: 500 |
Stamp leaflet
The new issue stamp leaflet for this issue was also released:
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