The conference for reviewing the work in the agricultural field in 2019 opened in Pyongyang on Friday.

The conference will exchange successes and experience gained last year in increasing the number of high-yield farmers, high-yield sub-workteams, high-yield workteams and high-yield farms true to the agricultural policy of the Party and analyse and review last year’s shortcomings and lessons and, on the basis of that, discuss the tasks and ways for attaining the new goal of grain production set by the Workers' Party of Korea for this year, the first year of the offensive for making a frontal breakthrough.

It was attended by Pak Pong Ju, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, vice-chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and vice-chairman of the WPK Central Committee, Premier Kim Jae Ryong, member of the Political Bureau of the WPK Central Committee and member of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK, and other leading officials of the Party and government, chairmen of provincial Party committees, chairman of the Central Committee of the Union of Agricultural Workers, leading officials of provinces, cities and counties that took the lead in carrying out the Party's policy on agricultural revolution, farmers, officials of rural primary organizations, scientists and technicians in the field of agricultural science research who distinguished themselves in agricultural production last year, innovators in the fields of animal husbandry, agricultural machinery, irrigation, land rezoning and reclamation of tideland and officials concerned.

A congratulatory letter sent by Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the DPRK State Affairs Commission, to participants in the conference for reviewing the work in the agricultural field in 2019 was read out by Pak Pong Ju.

Kim Jae Ryong made a report.

He said that the conference will serve as an important occasion in vigorously demonstrating the validity and vitality of the Party's policy on agricultural revolution and providing a new springboard to agricultural production this year by drawing on the successes, experience and lessons drawn in the agricultural field.

All the officials and working people in the agricultural field have come to have confidence through the last year's struggle that the goal for high grain production can be attained as they want when they thoroughly implement the Party's policy on agricultural revolution, he noted.

He stressed that the successes achieved last year are totally attributable to the energetic leadership and patriotic devotion of Kim Jong Un who indicated the way to be followed by the agricultural front and led it step by step.

The agricultural workers, encouraged by his leadership and loving care, turned out as one in the struggle for grain production and gave full play to their high spiritual strength and patriotic zeal to devotedly defend the Party with rice, he said.

There were a number of serious shortcomings to be overcome without fail and serious lessons drawn in the field of agriculture last year, he noted.

He called for making redoubled efforts with new confidence and readiness to live up to the great trust and expectations of the Party with highly increased grain production after learning a serous lesson from the shortcomings found in the last year's struggle.

He also called for putting greater spurs to the grand march of self-reliance under the uplifted militant slogan of "Let us smash straight through all the barriers in the way of our advance!" laid down at the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Seventh Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea.

He called upon everyone to make an all-out dash in the ongoing offensive for making a frontal breakthrough in order to achieve a fresh victory in building a powerful socialist country under the leadership of Kim Jong Un and bring about a huge upswing in agricultural production, thereby glorifying this year of the 75th founding anniversary of the WPK with unprecedented successes in agricultural production.

Speeches were made at the conference.

The conference continues.

Earlier, the participants in the meeting for reviewing the work in the agricultural field in 2019 visited the Kumsusan Palace of the Sun where President Kim Il Sung and Chairman Kim Jong Il are preserved in their lifetime appearance on Friday.