CVIA at Lembah Chuping in Perlis is centred around green and halal industries. The 2,482-acre development is set to transform Perlis into a high-income and industrialised state by 2030.

Belum-Temengor Tropical Rainforest (BTTR), a state park gazetted in 2007, is one of the oldest tropical rainforest in the world located in NCER.

The government recognises the role of mothers as the main pillar of the family and the community as a whole. Mothers play a pivotal role, not only in educating and raising children, but they also often hold the responsibility of managing family finances.

The empowerNCER programme was designed to enhance the skills of the locals to enable them to compete and seize the economic opportunities created in NCER.

Malaysia’s graduate unemployment rate in 2018 fell slightly to 3.9% from 4% in 2017, with a total of 162,000 unemployed graduates. NCER alone recorded 14,300 unemployed graduates, with Perak and Perlis recording the highest percentage rate.

EMM is an innovative solution that helps increase the yield and income of farmers. It is among NCIA’s initiatives to modernise the region’s agriculture sector.

Launched in 2012, CREST is an industry-led collaborative platform for market-driven R&D to enable Malaysia to become a high-income nation.

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