Malaysian Government Imports Food, true or false?

Cut & Paste- Beef? or BULL?

The Star reported on 28 December 2007 as follows:

Under the Headline: “Govt still needs to import food........."

“THE Government will continue to import food if local production and supply are still unable to meet the demand of the country.

Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Deputy Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Shariff Omar said beef, mutton, rice and vegetables were still being imported from neighbouring countries as the country was still short of being self-sufficient.

He said the country was 72% self-sufficient in rice production and targeted to be at 100% self-sufficient by the year 2010 following efforts to produce 10 metric tones of rice per hectare.

“We are also importing a lot of mutton and beef. Our local breeders are producing only 22% of beef for local consumption.

“We are importing about 23,000 metric tonnes of beef, mostly from India, monthly,” he said when met at his service centre, near Butterworth, yesterday.

Mohamad Shariff said the country was producing only 8% of mutton for local demand and hoped to increase it to 18% by the year 2010.

He said the Government was importing some 4,000 metric tonnes of mutton monthly."

Questions:

1. Does Mohamad Shariff really expect Malaysians to believe that the Government imports this food?

(I doubt it this is true, surely the food is imported by private companies, not directly by the Malaysian Government.

It is of course a fact that the Malaysian Government tries to interfere and control each and every aspect of life in Malaysia, but it seems that now even the food is, according to Shariff, being directly imported by the Barisan National collation Government.

2. Pray tell, where are the Government Run Shops which sell, or perhaps even give away, this imported food?

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