GEDONG, Oct 6 Sarawak has the capability to cater for 80 per cent of rice needed in the state through a pilot project to plant hybrid paddy that will start yielding in three to.
The government should set up a hybrid paddy research facility alongside the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) to break the private sector's monopoly on the seed market and increase rice production, according to Mohammad Masum, chairman of the Supreme Seed Company.