THE agriculture sector, especially the food production sub-sector, has contributed positively to the country’s GDP during the Covid-19 pandemic, growing by 0.4% in the first quarter of 2021. This growth was supported by better performance in other agricultural sub-sectors (other than palm oil) at 5.7% and livestock, which rose to 3.5%.
In the second quarter of 2021, the other agriculture and livestock sub-sectors expanded further at 6% and 6.3% respectively.
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