A Grain of Hope

Back home at last last night. The airport was amazingly quiet. It was probably because it was a public holiday in Holland for the Queen's day. Or could it be because of the Swine Flu that people start to limit their travelling. People here though are still not panicking for that. The number of deads seems be blown out of proportion.

Reading through a backlog of local news I learnt about the new rice coming out of Brunei. It was last monday that HM attended the official kick start of Brunei's drive to secure future food supply. For that HM went out to the field to plant the first seedlings of the newly-renamed local rice variety - 'Laila'. It is expected that this will be harvested in 3 months time when HM will come again for the harvest.

Looking at the scale, speed and planning put to implement the rice supply strategy, indeed it was very impressive for what have been done . For the first time there is a real encouragement that we are turning towards the right direction.

The given name to the rice however is not that unique. Browsing through the net, apparently there is already similar name used for a basmati from Pakistan.