SEBERANG PERAI, Aug. 9 -- Penang aims to have 75 per cent of its durian farms registered under its Track-and-Trace system by the fruiting season next year.

State Agrotechnology, Food Security and Cooperative Development Committee chairman Fahmi Zainol said the Agriculture Department has been visiting farms to explain the system since it was rolled out in June.

"We are approaching the larger farms in each district to explain the system to them and get them to register their durians to use it," he said at a durian outreach programme in Rain Tree Farm here today.

He is upbeat that it will be easier to meet each farm owner with the durian season now ended.

"We hope to get at least 75 per cent of the farms to register under this system by ...