Kota Kinabalu: Subsidising imported white rice (BPI) in Sabah and Sarawak is to ensure the people always have access to sufficient supply of rice at a controlled price.
Deputy Agricultural and Food Security Minister Datuk Chan Foong Hin said the move was important due to the high demand for BPI in Sabah and Sarawak which, due to the low supply and production of BPI, has caused the price of the rice to soar.The Kota Kinabalu Member of Parliament said it’s quite difficult to obtain local white rice in the market currently as it is not the harvest season yet and, as such, the country has to rely on BPI.
The Federal Government agreed to give a subsidy of RM950 per tonne for BPI from October 5 in Sabah, Sarawak and Labuan to enable the BPI to be obtained at a retail price of RM31 per 10-kilogramme .Chan also said that the Federal Government is striving to increase the production of local white rice, especially in Sabah, through the Large-Scale SMART Paddy Field Programme in the Integrated Agricultural Development Area in Kota Belud.
Chan said that Sabah and Sarawak’s contribution in terms of overall rice production at the national level was still low at between three and four per cent.
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