DLG (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft e.V. – German Agricultural Society), founded in 1885 by Max Eyth, is an open network and serves as a professional voice of agriculture, agribusiness and the food industry. Its goal is to promote progress by transferring and communicating knowledge, quality and technology. DLG has over 31,000 members. It is politically independent and internationally networked. As one of the leading organizations in its sector, DLG organizes trade fairs and events in the fields of agriculture and food technology, conducts tests of foods and beverages, agricultural machinery and equipment, as well as farm inputs, and in a large number of expert committees develops answers to the challenges confronting agriculture, agribusiness and the food industry. DLG Asia Pacific Co., Ltd. is the subsidiary of DLG International GmbH with headquarter in Frankfurt, Germany. As part of the DLG International group with 10 subsidiaries in 9 countries, DLG Asia Pacific highly benefits from the global network of experts. It is the second Asian subsidiary after DLG AgroTechService in Beijing, which was founded in 2007. DLG’s main events in Asia Pacific are the agricultural exhibitions AGRITECHNICA ASIA and HORTI ASIA as well as the German-Thai Cooperation Project to Promote the Sustainable Development of Cluster Farms in Thailand. Until May 2023, DLG Asia Pacific Co., Ltd was named DLG Thai Co., Ltd. The new name more accurately reflects the regional focus.
