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7) Agri-business –
to evaluate the viability in terms of production and cost. To be cost-e ective and sustainable, this
research has to be conducted in both China and Malaysia. This is because sea level rise is a global
phenomenon. Everybody will be a ected in some ways or another. Working collaboratively among the
a ected nations is the way forward. Well, it is up the would-be sponsor to consider the proposal.
Remember, food security in the world is threatened by the calamity; hopefully, the proposed project
will find a solution to the problem.
If a project of this nature is over ambitious, we can always modify to suit our dream without
necessarily abandoning the set objectives. For sure, it requires a lot of brain power to come out with a
comprehensive proposal that will satisfy the sponsor. We never know, in the end it may need
government to government intervention.
But no harm is done trying, I guess. In my view, if we want to serve mankind and to be known for a
lifetime, this is one of the projects we should be thinking about and doing for the next many years of
our academic life. I guess not many in the world have given a serious thought on conducting a
research of this nature yet. Thus, let NAU-UPM research on rice production during the di cult time
be the pioneer. It will be great.
As far as NAU is concerned, it is a true-blue agricultural university in the East. For all you know, a set
for agricultural production is not complete without the services provided by agricultural engineering
(designing machinery and mechanization) and veterinary medicine (looking after animal health).
In fact one of the biggest structures within its city campus in Nanjing is Veterinary Medicine and
Animal Science Building. It shows how important animal production is to the country. So under the
Look East Policy, which the Malaysian Government is now promoting, we should not only look
towards Japan/Korea, but also to China for advanced education in S&T.
Thus, I suggest Universiti Putra Malaysia should sign MoU with Nanjing Agricultural University in due
course so as to strengthen the collaboration in R&D between the two institutions. The results of the
research collaboration that followed would benefit mankind throughout the world.
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