Diplomats from the Chinese embassy visited a cooperative farm in Pyongyang on Thursday and offered the farmers a helping hand in harvesting.

The diplomats headed by Chinese Ambassador Liu Xiaoming helped farmers threshing rice on the DPRK-China Friendship Thaekam Cooperative Farm located in the northern suburbs of the DPRK capital, and handed over a batch of aid materials.

Thanks to the effort of the whole farm and the help of the Chinese embassy, the harvest was very good this year, said Chong Myung Chol, chairman of the farm.

He said the farm would try its best to secure another good harvest in 2009 to contribute its part to the upcoming "Year of DPRK-China Friendship."

(Xinhua News Agency October 31, 2008)