With Sabah’s leaders increasingly prioritising agricultural land and resources as a driver of economic growth, the state’s fruit and vegetable industry looks set for a growth surge in the months ahead.
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Economic update | Sabah: Bearing fruit
29 Mar 2011
Brunei Darussalam is moving to strengthen its food security, working to increase production of vital crops at home while also looking at the option of investing in farms and agriculture facilities overseas to ensure the nation’s staple requirements are met.
Economic update | Nigeria: Focus on food security
14 Feb 2011
With food security becoming a growing concern worldwide, the Nigerian agriculture sector has recently become the focus of multiple investment programmes. The government is taking a proactive approach to boosting domestic production and has designed a plan to help the nation fulfil its agricultural potential.
Economic update | Oman: Stabilising food costs
14 Feb 2011
The Omani government is taking steps to ensure greater food security, identifying self-sufficiency in production and cost stabilisation as its major goals. With food costs on the rise throughout the region, officials hope new strategies will curb price volatility and assuage public concern over rising living expenses.
The Philippines government is hoping that higher levels of investment and better weather will come to the aid of the agricultural industry as the sector tries to compete with other segments of the economy.
Turkey’s government has relaxed import restrictions to ease a crisis in the livestock industry which has led to skyrocketing meat prices. But as its best efforts falter, cattle-farmers are considering a high-tech embryo transfer system that could one day create a half-Angus, half-Turkish superbreed.