Chief Minister Datuk Seri
Idris Haron said the area in the district would become a centre
of fragrant rice as the production of fragrant rice would be carried out
in a controlled environment compared to other places.
He said fragrant rice needed to be
controlled from planting, harvesting to milling as well as packaging
for customers to compete with other rice of the same quality.
“Agriculture and Agro-based
Industry Ministry has approved an allocation of RM2.9 million for the purpose
of constructing a fragrant rice drying plant to ensure controlled
quality,” he told reporters after a ground breaking ceremony of the
Mardi fragrant rice pilot project here, today.
Parit Penghulu, Sungai Rambai here
was selected by Mardi for the fragrant rice cultivation pilot project for
the MRQ74 variety and currently more than 40 hectares have been
planted with this variety of padi.
-- BERNAMA
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