South Korea: Conducted online training for plant quarantine officers in Sri Lanka for new distribution of agri-food products

(Korea Agricultural Newspaper = Reporter Eun-Young Yoo) The Agricultural Food Research Institute (Chairman Cheol-hee Won, Director Dong-hwan Kim) conducted an online training for plant quarantine officers in Sri Lanka from August 16 to September 3. This training was conducted over three weeks as part of the 'Sri Lanka Agricultural Products Import/Export Quarantine System Improvement Project', an aid project for developing countries of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA). Fifty Sri Lankan National Plant Quarantine Service (NPQS) quarantine officers and related department personnel completed the training. This training was originally planned to be conducted face-to-face in Sri Lanka, but as the dispatch of experts was delayed due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the training was conducted online through consultation with the National Plant Quarantine Service of Sri Lanka. The training was conducted based on the theory of plant quarantine, and the training course consisted of ...