Maurice Lam: “It is high time for the country to look at the use of land”
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Business Magazine talked to Maurice Lam, Chairman of the Board of Investment, in the wake of FDI data released by the Bank of Mauritius. He foundimperative that Mauritius attracts FDI into green field projects.Stressing on the difficulty faced by the sugar industry, he noted thatevery year,there are planters stopping growing sugar cane. “What will happen to the land, which then remain non-productive?”, he asked.There is an urgent need and it is high time, he added,for the entire country to look at the use of land, at our attitude towards land and its ownership, the emotional issues associated with it due to our past history and come up with a fifty-year plan for land ownership and use that would be embraced by the entire country.
