KOTA MARUDU, May 28 -- Sabah has significant potential to develop grain corn cultivation on a commercial scale as part of efforts to reduce the state's dependence on imported animal feed, which currently costs an estimated RM800 million annually.

State Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Industry Datuk Jamawi Jaafar said Sabah's current self-sufficiency level (SSL) for grain corn production remained low at only about two per cent.

"This means Sabah only produces around two per cent of the feed requirements for poultry and other livestock, while the rest still depends on imports," he said during a visit to the grain corn cultivation project at Kampung Mosolog here on Tuesday.

The project, undertaken by EMAT Sdn Bhd in collaborat...