KUCHING: Youths, especially those living in suburban areas, are encouraged to take advantage of the lucrative agriculture sector.
Communities living in suburban areas are also tend to have access to plots of lands that are family owned, thus giving prospective young farmers a head start to set up their own farms.
Assistant Minister for Youth Development (Urban Areas) Datuk Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah said taking up agriculture was a wise one as everyone needed food.
“Agriculture should be taken advantage of by youths in the state,” said Abdul Karim when closing the ‘Agro Belia’ Seminar at the Youths and Sports Department Complex here yesterday.
He said the somewhat negative perception of farmers should be improved as farmers of today were raking in huge amount of money as compared to those in the old days.
The Asajaya assemblyman also noted that the agriculture sector in Kota Samarahan was thriving by the day, which is proven by the number of lorries going into the constituency to buy bulk agriculture products for the Kuching market.
“I know a few farmers who are selling fruits from their own garden and they are making at least RM3,000 to RM5,000 a month.”
