THE fourth meeting of the  Mekong-Lancang Agricultural Cooperation Working Group, hosted by Myanmar, was held yesterday morning. The vid eoconference was held at the meeting hall of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation.

 
Dr Ye Tint Tun, Director-General of the Department of Agriculture of Myanmar, chaired the meeting, while Mr Wei Zhenglin, Deputy Director-General of the International Cooperation Department under the Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China co-chaired the meeting.

Representatives from the members of the Mekong-Lan-cang member countries: Cambodia, China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand attended the  meeting.

Myanmar representatives  from the Department of Planning, the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation,  Department of Agriculture,  Department of Agricultural  Research, Livestock Breeding  and Veterinary Department,  Department of Fisheries and  Yezin Agricultural University  also joined the meeting.

Officials discussed the enhancement of agricultural cooperation among theMekong-Lan-cang member countries and the involvement of the Mekong region in the implementation of green agriculture in China-ASEAN.

Cooperation of Me kong - Lancang Member Countries with the aid of Me-
kong-Lancang Special Fund, success status of ongoing pro- jects, difficulties encountered and challenges were explained on a country-by-country basis, and ways to implement projects were successfully discussed.

They also discussed the  establishment of the Bumper Harvest Projects of the People’s Republic of China and the estab-lishment of the Fisheries and Aquatic Conservation Working Group in the Mekong-Lancang member countries.

MNA

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