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TAR UC - MPC Sign Agreement to Jointly Develop Agro-Food Information Toolbox for Stakeholders

(From left) Assoc Prof Dr Ng Swee Chin, Prof Ir Dr Lee Sze Wei, Dato’ Abdul Latif Hj Abu Seman, and Mr Zahid Ismail at the MoA signing between TAR UC and MPC.

 

TAR UC has inked a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with Malaysia Productivity Corporation (MPC), an agency that comes under the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI), on 4 November 2019 to develop and implement an Agro-Food Information Toolbox in the form of a web portal.

The web portal will act as an online resource for all stakeholders in the agro-food industry to search for targeted information on specific food crops of their interest. The information on the portal will be arranged according to subject analysis of different crops. This co-operative venture between TAR UC and MPC will aid in Malaysia’s transformation into a high-income economy by enhancing productivity and innovation.

The portal, to be hosted on the TAR UC server in TAR UC Innovation Integration Hub (I2Hub) for 2 years, will use ginger as the first showcase crop, since ginger is the crop of focus in the 11th Malaysia Plan Agriculture 4.0 project of TAR UC. The portal will gradually introduce other showcase crops to make the portal as the main point of reference for agro-food industry. Workshops run by TAR UC are also planned as a means of educating the public on the development of the agro-food industry in Malaysia.

The MPC contributed RM44,520 seeding fund to TAR UC towards the development and implementation of the Agro-Food Information Toolbox, and TAR UC will be responsible for its upkeep and maintenance, with the duration of collaboration covering 10 months, starting from 1 November 2019.

The MoA was signed by Assoc Prof Dr Ng Swee Chin, Vice President of TAR UC and Mr Zahid Ismail, Deputy Director-General of MPC, witnessed by Prof Ir Dr Lee Sze Wei, President of TAR UC and Dato’ Abdul Latif Hj Abu Seman, Director-General of MPC.

        
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