ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve
ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve
On 13 January 2023, Dr. Choomjet Karnjanakesorn, General Manager of the APTERR Secretariat and the APTERR staff had a great opportunity to pay a courtesy call on H.E. Dr. Jaranthada Karnasuta, the current Privy Councillor and the former Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives (2007-2009).
The APTERR Secretariat welcomed the representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (MAFRA) and the Korea Agro-Fisheries and Food Trade Corporation (aT) of the Republic of Korea (ROK) to the Secretariat office on 9 December 2022 for discussing a further improvement of APTERR’s activities in strengthening food security in the region.
On 21 September 2022, Dr. Choomjet Karnjanakesorn, General Manager of APTERR Secretariat together with Mr. Toshiki Tojo, Japanese Expert, warmly welcomed the representatives from the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) of Japan, namely Mr. Kimura Keitaro, Director of the Statistics Planning Division, the Statistic Department and Mr. Hosaka Masahiro, Deputy Director as well as the ASEAN Food Security Information System (AFSIS) Secretariat, comprising of Dr. Woraporn Saelee, Manager, Dr. Sumanya Ngandee, Deputy Manager, Mr. NIIMI Tomohiro, Japanese Expert along with the AFSIS staff to the APTERR Secretariat office for exchanging views on the food security information.
The APTERR Secretariat has considered the human resources development as one of essential key elements to support the achievement of the APTERR’s goals in strengthening food security in the ASEAN+3 region. Thus, the field study on an applied agriculture for sustainability was conducted during 29 - 31 August 2022 to provide the concrete understanding and sharpen competencies of its staff toward this issue.
Dr. Choomjet Karnjanakesorn, General Manager of the APTERR Secretariat, accompanied with Mr. Toshiki Tojo, Japanese Expert, and the APTERR staff, paid a courtesy visit to H.E. Mr. Prapan Disyatat, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Thailand to the Republic of Indonesia, and H.E. Ms. Urawadee Sriphiromya, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Thailand to ASEAN, on 15 August 2022 in Jakarta, Indonesia.
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