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OAM stands for Organic Alliance Malaysia. It is a membership-based business association that seeks to promote and protect the organic industry in Malaysia. In short, we like everybody in Malaysia to think organic, grow organic and use organic.
| Good reasons to be self-sufficient |
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MALAYSIA is on course to become a major food exporter in South-East Asia from 2010, says the Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Ministry. Plans are already in the pipeline to “grow” towards this objective. Currently, up to nearly a third of foodstuffs consumed by Malaysians is still imported. This amounts to some RM14bil a year, covering the entire range of diets including meat, rice and vegetables.
However, the reasons for becoming fully self-sufficient in food are more than just economic. They are also strategic and commonsensical, such as to avoid difficulties and hardship arising from international conflict, disruptions in shipments or fluctuating currency exchange rates.
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