I spoke to third year students from two schools who were visiting the Houses this morning. I encouraged them to consider careers in the food science technology area. If we are to create high-end jobs, those are the areas in which people will have to be specifically trained in research. The technology developed from such research can be sold to other countries and this will enable us to develop a smart economy in this area. We will not develop a smart economy that will create any level of work from simply talking about having a smart economy. It must be built from the ground up.

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