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Se­nior Mul­ti­me­dia Re­porter

New­ly mint­ed Min­is­ter of Agri­cul­ture, Land and Fish­eries, Ravi Rati­ram, says he plans to tack­le a 60 per cent staff short­age across his min­istry, be­fore slash­ing the $7.3 bil­lion food im­port bill by $2 bil­lion.

He says he is al­so aim­ing to boost agri­cul­tur­al ex­ports by $1 bil­lion over the next five years.