General : MAFS Proposes Gazetting Over 200,000ha To Protect Paddy Areas - Deputy Minister

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• He said the proposed gazettement was aimed at ensuring that paddy cultivation areas would not continue to shrink, while helping the country increase domestic rice production.
• At a meeting with state agriculture ministers and executive councillors, we recommended that all state governments propose that rice bowl areas throughout Malaysia be gazetted to prevent further reductions in paddy cultivation areas,” he said during the question-and-answer session in the Dewan Rakyat today.
• Elaborating, Chan said the government was implementing various measures to increase domestic paddy and rice production, including a project to cultivate paddy for five seasons over two years in the Muda Agricultural Development Authority (MADA) area.

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