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Salahuddin: Govt wants to collaborate with China on new technology to improve rice yields
People plant rice seedlings at a village in Huaying, Sichuan province, China, April 27, 2017. The use of modern technology in the paddy sector in China has allowed the country to produce up to eight tonnes per hectare. — Reuters pic
KOTA BELUD, July 13 — The Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry (MOA) wants to collaborate with China to introduce new technology here in efforts to improve rice yields in the country, says its minister Datuk Salahuddin Ayub.
He said the use of modern technology in the paddy sector in China has allowed the country to produce up to eight tonnes per hectare apart from storing enough rice supply for the use of its 1.4 billion people.
“During the Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s visit to China with me and accompanied by MOA’s secretary-general Datuk Sallehuddin Hassan, we obtained interesting information on how China sustains its annual..
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