SABAH DAP Vice Chairman, Edward Ewol Mujie viewed Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak when presenting the Budget 2013 last Friday that four new paddy granaries will be developed and expanded in Kota Belud (sabah), Balang Lupar (Sarawak), Rompin and Pekan (Pahang) with an allocation of RM140 million.
He has however did not taken into account the real need in Sabah, and this is very perplexing as Kota Belud has implemented this project a few years backs, but sorry to say that it did not produce the anticipated result. What is the increase in the rice production?
In Sabah there are lots of other districts that has vast areas of abandons paddy fields and land suitable for paddy planting such as Papar, Tuaran, Terusan Sapi, Kota Marudu and Kuala Penyu, and why can’t this new project of paddy granaries be implemented in these districts.
These paddy fields have been producing few thousands metric tons of paddy for decades, but due to many reasons like the lack of good drainage and irrigation system, these paddy fields have been abandoned and left lying idles for many years. So it is high time that the Government should take the necessary steps to re-develop them through this incentive scheme as announced by the Prime Minister.
But sadly Edward said this is not the case but Kota Belud again has been chosen to implement this project. However he said he would like to know whether the paddy granaries project that has been implemented earlier in Kota Belud has been completed and whether the paddy production so far increased.
In Sabah, we import RM1.0 billion of rice and that is equal to 70% (205,000 tonnes) of our rice requirements in Sabah. It is absolutely a total failure on the part of the government for not really emphasizing on achieving the simple task of producing enough rice in the state.
In real fact, during the past 5 decades, the government had failed miserablly, and the amount used to develop the rice planting is marginal. What can the RM140 million do, while Sabah might be getting a small share only. We actually need much more than RM240 million to speed up the rice production and to secure food security in rice. Just imagine if the import and supply of rice to Sabah is cut, how can we feed the 3.4 million population? Are we going back to eat tapioca?
The government is not seen to be solving the most basic and fundamental requirements of food supply. If we had done that many decades ago, we should be having enough food by now, even more for export to West Malaysia.
-Sabahkini
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
No Food Security In Sabah?
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Empangan Tambatuon yang direntang keras oleh penduduk sebelum ni sebenarnya bertujuan untuk mengairi sawah padi bagi tujuan menjadikan KB sebagai pengeluar utama padi.
ReplyDeleteStatus daerah KB sebagai jelapang padi dipertingkatkan lagi dengan perisytiharan jelapang padi dalam belanjawan 2013.
ReplyDeleteIni merupakan berita baik bukan hanya di KB malah seluruh Sabah. Datuk Salleh Said percaya rancangan itu dan insentif lain bagi petani padi akan meningkatkan pengeluaran dan menaikkan pengeluaran padi tempatan kepada 50 peratus dalam 5 tahun akan datang.
ReplyDeletePeruntukan RM140 juta membuka jelapang padi adalah termasuk Kota Belud. mudah-mudahan Sabah akan dapat mengurangkan import 70% keperluan berasnya di masa akan datang.
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ReplyDeletethe Sabah agriculture department is spending slightly more than one million ringgit under the national food supply guarantee policy of 2008-2010 to level 382 hectares of fields in Kota Marudu to prepare them for rice planting.
ReplyDeletedalam bajet 2013 pembangkang ada sebut pasal food security kah?
ReplyDeletedalam bajet 2013 kerajaan ada sebut pasal food security dan peruntukkan sebanyak rm140juta...
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ReplyDeleteSabah must fully exploit its vast potentials in the agricultural sector, particularly rice plantation, to ensure food security for the state, said adviser to Sabah Land Development Board (SLDB), Petrus Gimbad.
ReplyDeleteHe said Sabah need to seriously look into ways of reducing rice imports as these would eventually affect the livelihoods of the people, especially if the government subsidies on essential foods were cut.
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ReplyDelete“It’s important for Sabah to have food security and this can only be achieved by being self-sufficient, especially in rice production,” he said.
ReplyDeleteGimbad said this to Bernama after the Roundtable Debate on Sabah’s Economic Transformation which was held here recently.
The roundtable was organised by International Investor and Sabah Economic Development and Investment Authority.
ReplyDeleteHe said global warming has affected rice production in some rice-producing countries such as Vietnam.
ReplyDelete“Can you imagine what will happen if they stop exporting rice? If we don’t have food security we will be in trouble.
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ReplyDelete“If the (government) subsidy is taken out, the poor will become poorer because they have to buy basic food, therefore we have no excuse (not to go into commercial paddy plantation),” he said.
ReplyDeleteGimbad, who also sits on the board of Sabah Development Bank, said the agricultural sector would continue to be an important engine of economic growth for Sabah.
He said the rubber industry also has a competitive future.
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ReplyDelete“Sabah should go into big rubber plantation as natural rubber is most competitive compared to synthetic rubber,” he said.
On SLDB, he said, it was difficult for foreign investors to participate in its agricultural projects such as palm oil plantation as most of the land was privately-owned.
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