Malaysia is expected to have 100,000 swiftlet nest farms by 2020 and capable of producing 500 tonnes of bird nests worth RM5 billion a year for the world market.
Agriculture and Agrobased Industry Minister Datuk Noh Omar said last year, 250 tonnes of bird nests worth RM1 billion were produced from 50,000 swiftlet farms in the country.
"Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak wants the swiftlet nest farming to be a big industry in the country and the ministry will work to achieve it," he said when opening a seminar on "Iskandar Malaysia-China Bird Nest Business
Opportunity 2009 in Johore Baru last night.
Noh said one of the Key Performance Index (KPI) of the ministry was to make bird's nest farming one of the important industry in Malaysia.
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