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KOTA KINABALU: The government is carrying out all the strategies necessary to strengthen Sabah’s agricultural sector and ensure that food supplies like rice and milk remain stable.

Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Seri Dr Jeffrey Kitingan said in terms of rice production, the Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry has formulated four major initiatives to increase rice production to achieve a rice Self-Sufficiency Level (SSL) of 60 per cent by 2030.

As for maize, Jeffrey said Sabah currently produced 0.01 per cent of its maize needs last year, with only 14 hectares of land dedicated to the crop, yielding 14 MT against total annual demands of 153,151 MT.

“The Sabah government is determined to raise maize output to 3.68 per cent in 2025 and 14.88 per cent by 2030,” he said in a statement, Sunday.

In terms of milk commodities, Sabah considers itself self-sufficient with a rate of production above 100 per cent, producing 8.435 million litres of milk last year, or 115.63 per cent of SSL.