Asean Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve
Monday - Friday 08:30 - 17:00
Saturday and Sunday - CLOSED
APTERR Secretariat
2nd Floor, Innovation Bldg., Office of Agricultural Economics, Kasetsart University Complex, Phahonyothin Road, Ladyao, Chatuchak, Bangkok 10900 Thailand
A total of 1,350 MT of APTERR’s stockpile emergency rice reserves under the generous contributions from Japan and the Republic of Korea (ROK) have been released through the Tier 3 programme to relieve the sufferings of 122,920 people, especially the vulnerable groups, due to severe impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in Myanmar.
On 5 October 2020, the APTERR Secretariat led by Mr. Chanpithya Shimphalee, General Manager, had a courtesy visit to Mr. Chantanon Wannakejohn to express heartfelt congratulations on his new appointment as Secretary General of the Office of Agricultural and Economics (OAE). Mr. Chantanon also serves as the APTERR Council member of Thailand.
This day, 7 October 2020, marks a day of remembrance of APTERR mechanism as we celebrate our 9th anniversary of APTERR establishment to be a permanent mechanism for strengthening food security, poverty alleviation, and malnourishment eradication, along with overall improving quality of people’s lives throughout the ASEAN Plus Three Region.
The APTERR Secretariat always realises the importance of human resource development as one of the key elements to accomplish the goal of ensuring and strengthening food security in the ASEAN+3 region. Therefore, to provide the staff members’ knowledge and experience, the field study was organised from 30 September - 2 October 2020 in the provinces of Pathumthani and Nakhon Ratchasima.
The APTERR Secretariat is pleased to announce that we have moved to the new location since 2nd September 2020. The new office is at the 2nd floor of a recently constructed “Innovation Building” of the Office of Agricultural of Economic (OAE) which is a few metres away from the previous one located in the same area of Kasetsart University Complex, Bangkok, Thailand.
On 9 September 2020, the APTERR Secretariat was cordially invited by Ms. Siti Atiqah Fatin Zainal Abidin, First Secretary (Agriculture) of the Embassy of Malaysia in Bangkok, to attend a luncheon of the Malaysia Food Fest at Shangri-La hotel, Bangkok. On this occasion, Mr. Mohd Azim, First Secretary, together with Ms. Ananya Benchanavee, Marketing Officer (Agriculture) of the Embassy of Malaysia, also joined the event.
On 21 August 2020, the APTERR Secretariat team led by Mr. Chanpithya Shimphalee, General Manager, took a field study to visit the Satellite Warehouse under Disaster Emergency Logistics System for ASEAN (DELSA) in Chainat province of Thailand. The field study aimed at providing the APTERR Staff members with new knowledge and experiences which will be applicable for the operations of APTERR as well as seeking cooperation with agencies concerned in coping with food insecurity situations.
On 5 August 2020, the APTERR Secretariat attended the Special Senior Officials Meeting of the 19th Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry Plus Three (Special SOM-19th AMAF+3) via the video conference.
On 23 July 2020, the representatives from the APTERR Secretariat participated in the 40th Meeting of the ASEAN Food Security Reserve Board (AFSRB) via video conference at the Ministry of Commerce of Thailand. The Meeting was organised by the AFSRB Secretariat and hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Viet Nam.
On 8 July 2020, the APTERR Secretariat led by Mr. Chanpithya Shimphalee, General Manager, attended online meeting with Ms. Fang Bing, the Counsellor, Ms. Mei Fang, Director for Functional Cooperation, and Mr. Wang Dongliang, the official of the Mission of the People’s Republic of China to ASEAN to discuss on the APTERR mechanism. The meeting’s objectives were to improve understandings about APTERR and to collect information for possibly adopting as one of role models of the ASEAN Regional Reserve of Medical Supplies and Equipment (RRMSE).
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