Young people should be taught to tap rubber and grow rice, among other agricultural practices, suggested former Bank Negara Malaysia deputy governor Arshad Ayub.

“Why not we have an agricultural national service?

“In other words, our young chaps who are supposed to do national service, they learn to tap rubber, they learn to work in the oil palm industry, they learn how to grow rice,” he said during the launch of a book titled ‘Rich Malaysia, Poor Malaysians’ by Anas Alam Faizli, at Subang Jaya last night...