The Asia and Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics (APCAS) is a statutory body of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). APCAS brings together senior statistics officials from FAO member countries of Asia and the Pacific region, who are responsible for the development of agricultural statistics in their respective countries. They review the developments in their agricultural statistics systems since the last session and exchange ideas with experts from FAO and other organizations on the state of food and agricultural statistics in the region. FAO uses this occasion to inform the member countries about its activities during the preceding biennium, particularly in Asia and the Pacific region. The prominent themes on the Agenda of the Twenty-seventh Session of the Asia and Pacific Commission on Agricultural Statistics (APCAS27) were Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals, Global Strategy to Improve Agricultural and Rural Statistics and developing an Integrated System of Agricultural Census and Surveys.