Malaysian government sets up new tropical fruit export company with $22m
Deputy Chief Minister, Datuk Amar Douglas Uggah Embas, today said that the Sarawak Agriculture Products Export Corporation Sdn Bhd will be run as a private company under the state Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Economy.
He added that the state-owned company will be responsible for building and managing exports of Sarawak’s agriculture products and ensuring that there are sufficient export orders on a sustained basis.
“For a start, the corporation will focus on bananas, coconuts and durians for export to peninsular Malaysia and Singapore, while the exports to China and Japan will be achieved within a longer time-frame due to the administrative protocols involved,” he told reporters after opening a seminar on Sustainable, Quality and Safe Agriculture Production here.
source: themalaymailonline.com
