NST Leader: Rice and fall
This promise was renewed as recently as 2020. But today, we are stuck somewhere in between. To get to the SSL set in the 60s in the 1MP, we need to produce close to 10 tonnes of rice per hectare. Malaysian rice farmers will tell us how they struggle to produce even 5 tonnes per hectare. What went wrong? Well, plenty.
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