KOTA KINABALU: Putrajaya must put its money where its mouth is over talk of making Sabah and Sarawak the rice bowls for the nation, says a political economist.
Sabah Universiti Teknologi senior lecturer Dr Firdausi Suffian said the proposal by Agriculture and Food Security Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Sabu over increasing rice production in both states had been mooted by previous governments."The plan to raise Sabah’s rice self-sufficiency level to 60% was made in the National Agricultural Plan III under the 10th and 11th Malaysia Plans.
The Minister said the Federal Government had been discussing the matter with the Sabah government to be carried out in the near future. The main issue faced in Sabah, he said, was related to irrigation and it would cost billions of ringgit to overcome.
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