Tapah: The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security (KPKM) is not ruling out the possibility of expanding the Onion Cultivation Development Project to Sabah and Sarawak to meet domestic demand.
Tapah: The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security is not ruling out the possibility of expanding the Onion Cultivation Development Project to Sabah and Sarawak to meet domestic demand.
“In order to expand the crop area, we need to do a study first in an area. If it is suitable then there is no reason for us not to open more space to make this project a success,” he said. On February 28, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Datuk Seri Mohamad Sabu said that through the programme the government aims to produce 14,470 tonnes of onions by 2026, the implementation of which will involve a cultivation area of 1,374 hectares across the country.Mohamad Sabu in the same statement explained that the initiatives implemented through the programme also aimed to achieve the target of a 30 per cent reduction in onion imports by 2030.
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