KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 27 -- Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Minister Datuk Mustapa Mohamed (fourth, left) and his deputy Datuk Rohani Abdul Karim (fourth, right) pose with head of delegations to the Developing Eight (D8) Ministers Meeting on Food Security here, today.Also present (from left) are Pakistan's High Commissioner Lt-Gen (Rtd) Tahir Mahmud Qazi, Bangladesh's Secretary of Ministry of Agriculture Sheikh Enayetullah, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Republic of Turkey Mahmet Mehdi Eker, Nigeria's Minister of State For Agriculture and Water Resources Fidelia Akuabata Hjeze, Director-General of Indonesia Agency for Agricultural Research and Development at the Ministry of Agriculture S. Gatot Irianto, Ambassador of Egypt to Malaysia Hani Abdel Kader Shash dan Iran's Deputy Minister of Jihat of Agriculture Dr Jafar Khalgan.The three-day meeting, which ends today, focuses on key inputs namely the creation of seed banks, the production and suplly of quality fertilizers and animal feed to perk up agricultural productivity.The countries that make up the D8 are Malaysia, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Egypt and Nigeria.-- fotoBERNAMA COPYRIGHT RESERVED

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