THE Government hopes to increase the national output of rice to 86% by 2010 while raising the production in Sabah and Sarawak to 70%, said Datuk Mustapa Mohamed.
However, the Agriculture and Agro-based Industries Minister said that 45,000 farmers in Sarawak were involved in working on 58,792ha of land, which produced hill padi.
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