Friday, July 29, 2005

ada apa dengan agriculture?

"Agriculture has been for too long relegated to second class status in a narrow-minded focus on industries and technology. The new move to revitalise this sector is welcome as agriculture devloped with the appropriate technology has the potential to add more value to the economy."
"In the electronics industry, for instance, only about a fifth of exports have value added bacause of the high import content in chips and other products which are subsequently exported. In agriculture exports, the value-added would be 100% - exporting RM20 million worth of agriculture products would have the same effect on the economy as exporting RM100 million worth of electronics products."
-P Gunasegaram, The Edge, February 9, 2004