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Plans to grow more greens for the city


A worker tending to his vegetable patch at the urban farm in Sri Malaysia flats. — YAP CHEE HONG/The Star

THE Federal Territories is looking at big-scale and indoor precision farming to produce high-quality vegetables as ways to enhance food security in the city.

Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa said he also planned to start a commercial-sized urban farm project in Putrajaya to help grow, collect, distribute and market agricultural products.

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