Panel okays strategy to ensure food security

PUTRAJAYA: The Cabinet Committee on National Food Security Policy agreed at its first meeting to create four clusters as a strategy to improve the quality and food security by optimising existing resources.

The committee, chaired by Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (pic), was set up following the Covid-19 pandemic and is responsible for the holistic scrutiny of food security issues involving aspects of the supply chain, manpower, technological applications, financial resources, investment and land and infrastructure use.