The Royal Irrigation Department is preparing to open the royally-initiated Huai Hong Khrai Royal Development Study Center and an exhibition highlighting HM King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s irrigation-management talents to the world for the upcoming 2nd World Irrigation Forum (2nd WIF).
Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister General Chatchai Sarikulya reveals that as Thailand has won the honor to host the 2nd WIF and the 67th International Executive Council Meeting between 6 and 12 November 2016, his ministry via the Royal Irrigation Department is preparing the Huai Hong Khrai Royal Development Study Center as the venue for the reception and educational visit of the meeting participants. At present, ministers from 13 nations namely China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, South Korea, Nepal, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, Sudan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, and Zimbabwe have already confirmed their participation. Thailand is also now waiting for confirmation from more than 10 other countries.
The Huai Hong Khrai Royal Development Study Center is the chosen venue because it reflects the king’s outstanding water-management abilities. Thanks to his talents, over 8,500 rai of parched land have turned fertile. The revived land zone has thus served as a perfect study center whereby people can come in and learn about practical forest management, water-source development and occupational promotion in the fields of agriculture, fisheries, livestock and agricultural industry. Indeed, the Huai Hong Khrai Royal Development Study Center has lived up to the king’s intention to set up a "living museum of nature" for people. In all, the center has presented the “outcome of development” and give knowledge for people to apply to great effects.
At the venue of the upcoming meeting, an exhibition will feature the king’s water-management initiatives for upstream, midstream and downstream areas so that representatives from across the world know about his irrigation talents. This exhibition will be open to the public between 7 and 8 November 2016 too.
“The government has accorded much importance to hosting these meetings, because the move will not only showcase Thailand’s advanced irrigation to the world but also to indirectly stimulate the country’s economy and tourism. More than 1,200 ministers, high-level officials, ambassadors, educational-institute executives, water-management and irrigation academics from 60 nations have confirmed their participation in the upcoming meetings,” General Chatchai concludes.
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