Dr. Choomjet Karnjanakesorn, General Manager of the APTERR Secretariat, together with Mr. Akinori Ando, Japanese Expert, and the APTERR staff attended the trilateral discussion with the Office of Agricultural Economics (OAE), Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives of Thailand, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on the role of Thailand in APTERR held on 20 February 2024 at the Secretariat office.
The discussion was a part of data collection by the ADB consultants to support ADB’s systematic review on APTERR. Those three parties fruitfully discussed and exchanged views on APTERR’s operation to enhance food security in the ASEAN Plus Three region and its potentials for further improvement in response to unprecedented circumstances led to food emergency in the future.
Representatives from the OAE led by Ms. Benjawan Siribhodi, Expert on International Agricultural Economic Policy, who was accompanied with Ms. Mesarat Sungkhawut, Ms. Kittama Jintanasonti and Ms. Nuttanin Trichairat, from OAE’s International Agricultural Economics Division. Meanwhile, the ADB consultants consisted of Ms. Lourdes Adriano and Dr. Roehlano Briones.
Thailand has been playing a significant role in APTERR since the beginning stage. The Secretariat office is also an in-kind contribution of Thailand.
