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Bernas — Padiberas Nasional Berhad, known as Bernas, is the Malaysian rice company that was corporatised in 1994 from the former government agency Lembaga Padi dan Beras Negara. It describes its role as keeper of national food security and is active across the rice chain. Upstream it manages farms and imports rice, midstream it procures paddy, operates rice mills and manages the national stockpile, and downstream it distributes and markets rice. It runs rice mills in several states of Peninsular Malaysia and distribution centres in Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah and Sarawak. The company also runs programmes for Bumiputra participants in the rice industry.