staple food

Sabah has huge land size for agriculture cultivation, particularly for paddy production but unable to attain self-sufficient level for domestic consumption.

It involves the distribution of 420,000 staple food baskets to 1.68 million recipients affected by COVID-19.

This love affair with the seed of the grass species, oryza sativa is not only rooted in the tangible world but has its own mystical, non-corporeal underpinnings to it.

Rice, the main staple food of ASEAN, is seen as an element that binds the ASEAN people although each country has its own distinctive ways of preparing it, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor said.