KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia's trade deficit will be reduced if the current trend of annual food exports exceeds annual imports in the next five years, said Agriculture Minister Datuk Dr Effendi Norwawi.
He said the annual increase in the food export rate was nine times higher than the increase in the food import rate last year.
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