1.   Alex Krauer, the future chairman of Novartis, said in March that there might be some antitrust concerns in the agriculture sector.

2.   Heavy government imports and a recovery in the agriculture sector helped level prices in the past eight months.

3.   Some in the agriculture sector, including some farmers, admit that at least some of the problems plaguing American agriculture are its own making.

4.   The agriculture sector has been in a recession for nearly four years.

5.   Pongpol said the government would provide full assistance to workers who agreed to return to their homes to work in the agriculture sector.

6.   Poland has asked for more pre-accession funds from the EU to help reform its huge agriculture sector and restructure its aging coal-mining and steel industries.

7.   Poland, the largest of the candidate countries, has a sizable agriculture sector.

8.   A key finding of the report is that growth in the agriculture sector has the largest impact when it comes to poverty reduction and limiting inequality.

9.   Abu Zahar said the State Government would revive the agriculture sector by giving grants to the relevant authorities and agencies to identify land for agricultural activity.

10.   Annuar, when contacted by Business Times, stressed the importance for the companies to specify their interests in the agriculture sector.