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
The APTERR Secretariat was pleased to welcome Ms. Mi-Ra Kim, Assistance Manager, and Ms. Jiyoon Kim, Staff of the Grain Aid Department of the Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation (AT), the Republic of Korea (ROK) to visit the APTERR Secretariat’s office during 6-7 September 2016 to enhance the cooperation and collaboration among the two parties.
The representatives from the APTERR Secretariat attending the SSOM-37th AMAF and the SSOM-155th AMAF+3 in Palawan, the Philippines
The Special Senior Officials Meeting of the 37th Meeting of the ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry (SSOM-37th AMAF) and the Special Senior Officials Meeting of the 15th ASEAN Ministers on Agriculture and Forestry Plus Three (SSOM-15th AMAF+3) were held in Palawan, the Republic of the Philippines on 22 – 25 August 2016.
The Operations of ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve Secretariat Protection ACT B.E. 2559 entered into force on 6 August 2016. In relative to this, the APTERR Secretariat has been granted a legal personality as a juristic person under the Thai law.
The handover ceremony and actual distribution of 150 –MT rice were conducted on 11 August 2016 with the aims of helping people affected from prolonged drought in Takeo and Svay Rieng provinces in Cambodia. This APTERR rice is a part of 210-MT rice donated by the Government of Japan through APTERR Tier 3 programme
The APTERR Secretariat organised the ‘Technical Working Meeting on Strengthening the Rice Reserve Implementation and the Subsidiary Regulations of the APTERR’ in Pattaya, Thailand on 26-27 July 2016 under the technical and financial assistance from the Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s Regional Technical Assistance (RETA) financed by Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction.
The Ceremonial Turn-Over of 240-MT rice donated by the Government of Japan through APTERR Tier 3 programme to help people affected by typhoon Melor (Nona) was conducted on 24 May 2016 in Catarman in Province of Northern Samar, the Philippines.
The 4th Meeting of ASEAN Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR) Council was held on 5 – 6 May 2016 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The Meeting was organized by the APTERR Secretariat and hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) of Cambodia.
The appointment of the new General Manager of the APTERR Secretariat
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