On 20 March 2023, Lieutenant Sorawud Preededilok, Minister attached to the Thailand International Cooperation Agency (TICA) met with Mr. Yanapol Limpanachokchai, Chairman of Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers Industry Club and Mr. Shannon Lee Ferry, Counsellor of Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers Industry Club, the Federation of Thai Industries (FTI), to discuss development and implement the Project on Thailand - Kenya Sustainable Agro-technologies Development and Mrs. Charintip Yosthasan, Director of International Development Cooperation Division also presented at the meeting.

          The meeting’s objective was to discuss the role of private sectors, which interested in implementing the project on capacity building activity provided to Kenya School of Agriculture (KSA) officer. Mr. Yanapol of FTI is pleased to cooperate with TICA because the project implementation can be expanded to other sectoral cooperation and also promoted agricultural machines made by Thai company. Moreover, East African region is an important agricultural machinery market of FTI. FTI considered to provide a training course on machinery maintenance.

          The Project on Thailand - Kenya Sustainable Agro-technologies Development is Thailand and Kenya agricultural project which implemented by Khon Kaen University                 (Thai side) and KSA (Kenyan side) to improve KSA officer’s agricultural knowledge and skill and established the Thailand - Kenya Agro-technologies learning center.