I was glancing at the PM speech for Malaysian Project for NINTH MALAYSIA PLAN
2006-2010. It include some agricultural objectives involving the production of food. I quote a few objectives and we can review whether we had achieved those objectives...
1. Malaysia aims to become a net exporter of food by 2010.
2. To realise these objectives, RM 11.4 billion has been allocated for this sector; a 70 percent increase compared with the allocation in the Eighth Malaysia Plan. A large portion of the allocation will be for the development of infrastructure for irrigation and drainage, R&D, enhancing credit facilities and implementation of entrepreneur development programmes. Programmes to integrate and rationalise more than 100,000
hectares of land will be implemented, whereas more than 380,000 hectares of land will be replanted with rubber and oil palm. Other main projects include the creation of 28 Permanent Food Production Parks comprising a land area of almost 2,400 hectares,
a. an Agropolis at Serdang and National Food Terminals (TEMAN) at Ipoh and Kota Bharu.
b. We will also increase the development areas of oil palm clusters, livestock valleys, fruit valleys, quaculture parks and halal food parks.
Spurred from the Ninth Malaysia Plan, the National Feedlot Corporation (NFCorp) was created to be the centre of production for beef and beef products in Malaysia. This High Impact Project under Ninth Malaysia Plan,National Feedlot Centre project will be instrumental in attaining the 40% self sufficiency for beef production by 2015.
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