Are we going to lose our staple food to development?
Rice is our staple food and central to our culture. Thus it is dismaying to learn that almost 100,000ha of paddy land in Peninsular Malaysia has been converted in the past 15 years, arising in increase in rice imports to meet local needs. The Malaysian government’s ill-defined development strategies and pursuance of export earnings has brought us to the stage that we have to import more rice...
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