Federation of Malaysia Vegetable Wholesalers Associations president Soo Cheng Kee said there was concern among the farmers and wholesalers over the issue.
“There are two groups of vegetables that we import.
“One is what we can’t grow well here like the Hong Kong kailan and the other is what we import to supplement the local supply like cabbages,” he said, adding that about 40% of vegetables in Malaysia were currently imported from China.
These include the Hong Kong kailan, Chinese cabbage, Beijing cabbage, round cabbage, cauliflower, baby kailan and carrots.- Star, 8/10/2008 - Farmers: Keep us informed
Noting that prices of vegetables in the market need to be kept low and reasonable for the general population, in an age when cost of living and cost of farming is increasing. There is a need to provide more assistance and subsidies to the farmer.
Maybe the government could purchase vegetables at a high price from the farmer and re-sell it at a lower price to the wholesalers...to the consumer. That means government subsidies.
Questions to the government(that some MP/ADUN could raise):-
Is there such a scheme in place at this time?
How much is being used to support this scheme?
What are the government plans in achieving target of at least 80% locally produced vegetables?
Several years ago, in a meet the MP session in PJ, constituents asked Donald Lim (as he then was) why the government was acquiring/allocating land for golf courses - but not allocating sufficient land for farming. [Of course Donald avoided the question and talked about the benefits of playing golf - stress reduction, etc...]
We all know it's not the farmers making the $$ but those lorrymen, wholesalers and retailers at market making all the $$.
ReplyDeleteCan someone propose good ideas to solve this food insufficiency and high price problems.
don't talk to us , pj folks about DONALD 'duck' lim, a useless clown, have met him at association and he was one of the worst corrupt politicians we ever came across. What happened in pj during his tenure, MPPJ BECAME MBPJ, The cange of name gave the machais contracts for signage and road name change $$$$$, advetisement boards, taman jaya repair scandal, brown water in or daily "fresh water supply", kampung medan incident, gasing hill rape, illegal funeral parlours, MPPJ SPORTS CLUB, QUIT RENT INCREASE, dubious accounts transactions, mayor of pj sacked because of pjaya residents exposee on under table duit kopi for mayor tarmizee, mppj parking scandal, billboard capital of malaysia, etc. so to those people who want to vote for DONALD DUCK LIM, forget about him becoming a member of parliment from PJAYA, BECAUSE WE WILL NEVER VOTE FOR THIS SCMBAG EVER AGAIN, BLOODY BIADAP ATTITUDE, YOU SAW HOW WE KICKED HIS ASS OUT OF PETALING JAYA. WE THE PEOPLE RULE,
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