Kota Kinabalu: The government is carrying out all the strategies necessary to strengthen Sabah’s agricultural sector and ensure that food supplies like rice and milk remain stable.
Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Panglima Dr Jeffrey Kitingan said in terms of rice production, the Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry has formulated four major initiatives to increase rice production to achieve a rice Self-Sufficiency Level (SSL) of 60 per cent by 2030.
The first strategy is to increase rice productivity and yield in existing planting areas by using technology, mechanisation and automation, planting rice twice a year (in stages) in accord with the irrigation system development level, using High Yielding Variety (HYV) rice seeds and rehabilitating abandoned paddy fields.