Over 1,500 tons of rice handed over to Myanmar earthquake victims under APTERR programme


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YANGON: Over 1,500 tons of rice donated by China and South Korea under the Asean Plus Three Emergency Rice Reserve (APTERR) programme were handed over to Mandalay region government on Wednesday (June 11) for communities affected by the earthquake in March this year, an official from the Rice Division under the Department of Agriculture told Xinhua on Thursday (June 12).

Myanmar received a total of over 3,500 tons of rice from South Korea and China for disaster-hit communities under the APTERR programme 2024, he said.

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