He said an announcement would be made once the federal government has decided whether to proceed with the project or otherwise.

However, until now the state government had yet to be informed whether or not the project would proceed, he told reporters after opening an agriculture expo here.

Sahruddin had been asked on the status of the project, which has been suspended for six months from April 1 to allow Malaysia to decide whether to proceed with it or not.

According to a press report today, Malaysia had requested for a further one-month extension of the suspension.

The proposed 4km-long link would connect Woodlands North station on Singapore’s Thomson-East Coast MRT Line to Bukit Chagar in Johor Bahru. It was slated to begin operations by Dec 31, 2024.

At the agriculture expo, Sahruddin urged all government departments and agencies to find ways to attract more young people to venture into agriculture through the use of digital technology.

He said Johor has a lot of abandoned land. “This vast land should be developed with large and moderate-scale agricultural projects,” he said, suggesting that owners of the abandoned or idle land lease their property to agriculture graduates to carry out projects with the private sector.