KUALA LUMPUR: The Agriculture and Food Security Ministry is looking into the proposal to set up a special agency to improve food security as a national agenda.
Its deputy minister Chan Foong Hin said the idea to establish the agency came up at a National Action Council on Cost of Living meeting earlier this year as one of the initiatives to tackle cost of living issues.
"Therefore, the establishment of a national food security agency requires further evaluation regarding the implications of legislation, finances, human resources, and adjustments to the functions and roles of ministries,” he said during a question and answer session at the Dewan Negara sitting on Tuesday .
Chan said that in an effort to improve food security, the government is also adopting an inter-ministerial approach to ensure that the national food system is stable and runs efficiently and productively.
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