KUANTAN: The Pahang Biodiversity-Biotechnology Strategic Action Plan which will be officially unveiled on Monday will help the state government generate a RM2 billion turnover and create 30,000 jobs in 10 years.
To be launched by Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin here, the plan will focus on three main areas, namely biotechnology, healthcare and the biotechnology-based industry.
State Information, Science, Technology and Innovation Committee chairman Datuk Mohd Sharkar Shamsudin said Pahang Technology Resources Sdn Bhd (PTR) and the state Economic Development Division would be the main agencies which would help implement all the projects and initiatives under the action plan.
"We hope to create about 100 biotechnology companies by 2020 with most of them as joint-effort ventures between international and local players," he said yesterday.
PTR, which is a state government subsidiary, will also handle Pahang Biotechnology Centre which will act as a one-stop centre for the industry.
Under the plan, Sharkar said the state government would also create a biodiversity bank that would help preserve the rich fauna and flora in the state, apart from setting up a biotechnology excellence centre and education unit which would focus on research and development in the field.
- NST -
Read more: Pahang aims for 100 biotech firms http://www.nst.com.my/nst/articles/24bio/Article/#ixzz0xVEdOVXu
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