SABAH DAP Vice Chairman, Edward Ewol Mujie viewed Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak when presenting a Budget 2013 last Friday which four brand new paddy granaries will be grown as well as stretched in Kota Belud (sabah), Balang Lupar (Sarawak), Rompin as well as Pekan (Pahang) with an allocation of RM140 million.
He has however did not taken in to comment a real need in Sabah, as well as this is very perplexing as Kota Belud has implemented this plan a few years backs, though sorry to contend which it did not furnish a anticipated result. What is a increase in a rice production?
In Sabah there are lots of other districts which has immeasurable areas of abandons paddy fields as well as land suitable for paddy planting such as Papar, Tuaran, Terusan Sapi, Kota Marudu as well as Kuala Penyu, as well as because can't this brand new plan of paddy granaries be implemented in these districts.
These paddy fields have been producing few thousands metric tons of paddy for decades, though due to many reasons like a miss of great drainage as well as irrigation system, these paddy fields have been abandoned as well as left lying idles for many years.So it is tall time which a Government should take a necessary steps to re-develop them by this incentive intrigue as announced by a Prime Minister.
But sadly Edward said this is not a box though Kota Belud again has been chosen to implement this project.However he said he would like to know whether a paddy granaries pla! n which has been implemented progressing in Kota Belud has been completed as well as whether a paddy prolongation so distant increased.
In Sabah, you import RM1.0 billion of rice as well as which is next to to 70% (205,000 tonnes) of our rice mandate in Sabah. It is positively a sum disaster upon a partial of a supervision for not really emphasizing upon achieving a elementary task of producing sufficient rice in a state.
In real fact, during a past 5 decades, a supervision had failed miserablly, as well as a volume used to develop a rice planting is marginal. What can a RM140 million do, while Sabah might be getting a small share only. We essentially need many some-more than RM240 million to speed up a rice prolongation as well as to secure food confidence in rice. Just imagine if a import as well as supply of rice to Sabah is cut, how can you feed a 3.4 million population? Are you starting back to eat tapioca?
The supervision is not seen to be solving a many simple as well as fundamental mandate of food supply. If you had done which many decades ago, you should be carrying sufficient food by now, even some-more for export to West Malaysia.
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