Myanmar virtually hosted the First Meeting of the BIMSTEC Expert Group on Fisheries and Livestock yesterday.
Representatives of BIMSTEC member states such as Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and from the BIMSTEC Secretary-General Office, Directors-General of affiliated departments of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Irrigation and other relevant officials attended the event.
Director-General Dr Ye Tun Win of the Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department presided over the meeting and discussed the matters related to fisheries and livestock technological cooperation with BIMSTEC members, fishing and animal product trade and investment, enhancement of research and development programmes, state-level food security strategies, good practices in policy development and exchange of experiences.
The 17th BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting in Colombo on 1 April 2021 decided to establish an Expert Group on Fisheries and Livestock to deal with issues pertaining to fisheries and livestock.
The reconstituted sectors and sub-sectors of cooperation were adopted in the Fifth BIMSTEC Summit held on 30 March 2022 in Colombo, and the fisheries sector became fisheries and livestock sub-sector under the agriculture and food security sector in which Myanmar is serving as the leading country. — MNA/KTZH
