Pak Pong Ju, Kim Ki Nam, Kwak Pom Gi, Ro Tu Chol, Vice Premiers Ri Chol Man and Ri Mu Yong and officials concerned went there to meet with the participants.

They congratulated the officials and sub-workteam heads who contributed to consolidating the material and technical foundations in the field of agriculture and increasing grain production by doing farming well as required by the Juche farming methods with the awareness that they are responsible for the granary of the country in the past.

They called on officials and sub-workteam heads to bring about a turn in agricultural production by holding the torch of innovations and thus fully display the validity and vitality of the theses on socialist rural question in this significant year marking the 50th anniversary of the theses.

They requested them to remain loyal to the leadership of Marshal Kim Jong Un who is working heart and soul to settle the food problem for the people, bearing in mind the party's call for keeping up agriculture as a major thrust of the on-going drive for economic construction and the improvement of the people's standard of living.