THE Province of South Sulawesi is ready to export rice to Malaysia beginning next year. Malaysia requires about 70,000 tons of imported rice a year.

“Malaysia considers our rice to be of high quality,” said Governor Syahrul Yasin Limpo during a dinner at his residence in honor of Datuk Azim, a visiting representative of Malaysian agriculture investors, earlier this month.

Lutfi Halide, head of the South Sulawesi Agriculture Office, said 10,