Message from the Director

摘要

A regional workshop "Market Prospects of Upland Crops in Asia" was held in Bogor, Indonesia, from 25 to 28 February 1997. We had 50 registered participants in total, of which three each were from India, Pakistan, the Philippines and Vietnam, four fromThailand, six each from Indonesia and Japan, one each from the Republic of Korea, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Around ten participants represented several embassies in Jakarta and some international as well as national institutions. To ourgreat regret, we missed three expected participants from China because of failure to obtain visas. Since the workshop was organized to discuss and disseminate the results of the project "Market Prospects of Upland Crop Products and Policy Analysis in Selected Countries in Asia" at its concluding stage, three participants were invited as a rule from each of the seven countries participating in the project. Each country group consisted of the national expert who worked on the project and two commentators,one from a policy planning section and one as a candidate for national expert for the next project "Effects of Trade Liberalization on Agriculture in Selected Asian Countries with Special Focus on CGPRT Crops".