Kota Kinabalu: The long holiday period brought by Sabah Kaamatan last month and Sarawak Gawai last week kept staff and management of the Lok Kawi Wildlife Park virtually busy attending their visitors during the entire holiday period.
KOTA KINABALU: Those who celebrate the annual Kaamatan festival have been urged to reflect on the occasion's cultural aspects and origin to ensure its continued relevance.
State Agriculture and Fisheries minister Datuk Seri Dr Jeffrey Kitingan (pic) said many local produce are no longer given attention to, as the race towards creating better genetics of plants and food sources intensifies.
He said these overlooked plants that are considered endemic to Sabah or have been around for generations in villages statewide have their own uses and benefits, and are at risk of extinction if they are not gathered, documented and preserved.
“Food and plant experts all over the world are busy competing to create super varieties including genetically modified organisms (GMO), but also many species of local plants and herbs that should be promoted as well,” he said.
March 11, 2021
PUTRAJAYA, 11 March 2021: Malaysia registered 4,332,722
international visits in 2020, down 83.4% on 26,100,784 recorded in 2019, a loss
suffered by all countries worldwide according to the World Tourism Organisation
(UNWTO) statistics.
Regionally the decline in.