Key Takeways
- Thailand’s Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives met with the Australian Ambassador to enhance agricultural cooperation, focusing on trade and academic partnerships in crops, fisheries, livestock, and resource management.
- The countries have a strong 72-year relationship, benefiting from mutual agricultural exports, demonstrating significant economic ties. Annual meetings between both agriculture ministries play a crucial role in maintaining this collaboration.
- The Permanent Secretary invited Australia to join the World Horticultural Expo 2026 in Udon Thani, themed “Diversity of Life: Connecting People, Water and Plants for Sustainable Living,” to further strengthen bilateral ties.
Thailand’s Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives held discussions with the Ambassador of Australia to Thailand on strengthening bilateral agricultural cooperation, with a focus on agricultural trade and academic collaboration. The cooperation covers crops, fisheries, livestock, as well as water and soil management.
Thailand and Australia share a close and long-standing relationship of over 72 years, and remain important export markets for each other’s agricultural and food products, reflecting strong and mutually beneficial economic and agricultural ties. Both countries’ agriculture ministry’s maintain regular annual meetings as a key mechanism to advance cooperation, with Australia set to host the next meeting in 2026 to ensure tangible outcomes for agricultural development on both sides.
On this occasion, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives also invited the Australian government to participate in the World Horticultural Expo 2026 in Udon Thani, to be held under the theme “Diversity of Life: Connecting People, Water and Plants for Sustainable Living.”
