Project Implementation
Between
ASEAN Food Security Information System
and
Department of Agricultural Land Management and Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation, Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Name of Activities: Stakeholder Meeting and Interim Report on Improving Statistics Data on Food Processing Value Chain Related to Sugarcane and Sugar Industry in Myanmar.
Objective: To complete the result of sugarcane pilot survey and disseminate to related stakeholders.
Date: 16 March 2019
Location: Oattara Thiri Hotel, Nay Pyi Taw,Myanmar
A Brief Summary of Activities:
1. To Explain about the Initial Step for improvement of agricultural statistics data to meet end users’ need and support policy advocacy for value chain development of Myanmar Sugar Industry and current sugar production status and future outlook in Myanmar.
2. To discuss about comparative study on sugar direct consumption in regions and states of Myanmar.
3. To review on Ten Year period of sugar import and export in Myanmar
The AFSIS Secretariat participated in the 10th International Conference on Agricultural Statistics (ICAS X), held from 8 to 10 July 2026 at the ICE Krakow Congress Centre in Krakow, Poland. Jointly organized by Statistics Poland, Eurostat, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the World Bank Group, and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
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On 24–25 June 2026, AFSIS Secretariat participated in the 46th Meeting of the ASEAN Food Security Reserve Board (AFSRB) via a virtual conference. The Meeting was jointly organized by the AFSRB Secretariat and the Department of Agriculture (DOA), Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation (MOALI) of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, and was hosted in Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.
On 17–18 June 2026, the 24th AFSIS Focal Point Meeting was successfully convened via video conference, hosted by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in collaboration with the ASEAN Food Security Information System (AFSIS) Secretariat.
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The ASEAN Food Security Information System (AFSIS) Secretariat, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) Japan, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Remote Sensing Technology Center of Japan (RESTEC), and Geo-Informatics and Space Technology Development Agency (GISTDA), conducted the 2nd Hands-on Training Courses for Agricultural Statisticians, the Final Workshop, and the 2nd Seminar for Executive Officials under the JAIF Project entitled “Improvement of Rice Paddy Area Statistics and Damage Assessment using Earth Observation Satellites for ASEAN” in Sriracha, Chonburi Province, and Bangkok, Thailand.
