CRICATATS has very close ties with related foreign research institutions. It has maintained long-term connections with more than 20 international organizations, including the International Coconut Community(ICC), the International Coconut Genetic Resources Network (COGENT) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Meanwhile, it has maintained scientific research cooperation and technical exchanges with more than 10 tropical countries including Philippines, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia and Vietnam, which are members of the International Coconut Community.
CRICATATS has carried out cooperation on coconut, oil palm, Camellia and date palm with Centre de cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour de Developpement(CIRAD), Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB), Coconut Research Institute of Sri Lanka (CRI, Sri Lanka), the Horticultural Research Institute of Thailand (HRI), Indonesia Coconut and Palm Plants Research Institute (ICPRI), Deakin University of Australia, Dubai Agriculture Bureau of United Arab Emirates, and so on. CRICATAS has signed science and technology cooperation agreements with 10 foreign research institutions including the University of the South Pacific and the Nigerian Oil Palm Research Institute, undertaking more than 36 international cooperation research projects. More than 100 scientific and technical experts were sent abroad for training, inspection, exchange, and scientific and technological assistance, and more than 80 technical experts were introduced. The President of Micronesia and several major national leaders visited CRI for scientific and technological cooperation and asked for technical support. We have hosted some international conferences and international training courses, such as the 3rd International Agricultural Development Fund Project of the International Coconut Genetic Resources Network and the training course for tropical crop cultivation techniques in the South Pacific Island. CRICATAS has introduced the Tropical oil crops and their breeding base has been playing an active role in the industrial development of tropical palm plants in China.
Minister of Agriculture and rural affairs, Han Changfu inspected the comprehensive prevention and control demonstration base of the red palm weevil in the United Arab Emirates in 2016
President of the Micronesia, Peter Christian met with experts led by CATAS in Boao, Hainan Province in 2017
President of the Micronesia, H．E．Joseph J．Urusemal visited CRICATAS ,Wenchang in 2006
General Secretary of South-west African People’s Organization of Namibia visited CRICATAS, Wenchang in 2007
The Third IFAD Project Planning and Review Meeting in CRICATAS, Wenchang in 2007
CRICATAS cultivation specialist taught tropical crop planting techniques in Comoros in 2010
2015 training course on tropical crop cultivation techniques for the South Pacific Island Countries in CRICATAS, Wenchang
CRICATAS signed science and technology cooperation agreements with Coconut Research Institute of Sri Lanka (CRI, Sri Lanka) in 2015
