With food security becoming a top consideration on the national agenda, especially with disruptions caused by global events, increasing food production has become very urgent.
He said it is important for children at school level to learn about the importance of farming and its contribution to the nation, pointing out that even the children of farmers rarely want to follow in their parents’ footsteps. He added that the cost of farming also keeps rising, but Malaysians continue to demand low prices for produce, and at the end of the day, this makes farming unsustainable.
He said by providing such knowledge, schoolchildren would learn that there are opportunities in farming and not just follow the herd and pursue medicine, accountancy or engineering. He said in modern farming, the creation of artificial sunlight 24/7 in a controlled environment makes vegetables grow faster than normal, thus allowing for shorter production time.
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