subsidised price for a 1kg polybag cooking oil, says Datuk Rosol Wahid. The Deputy Domestic Trade and

palm oil to control the prices of cooking oils in bottles and polybags. Khairuddin, in welcoming

TEMERLOH: The Temerloh Area Farmers Organisation( PPK) has incurred losses of more than RM120, 000 due to the flooding in the district. Its corporate project manager Nur Azmi Mat Zain, 29, said about thousands of crops in the orchards in Kampung Semantan here were destroyed after the area was submerged in 0.6m of water since Dec 18.He said that this was the first time the site had been hit by floods since it started operations in 2017." The floods caused us not to be able to harvest a total of 2

KUALA TERENGGANU: TDM Bhd, a subsidiary of the Terengganu state government through the company’s plantation division TDM Plantation Sdn Bhd( TDMP) is exploring a new development of cash crops, namely chilli, at Ladang Tayor near here. TDM said in a statement today that the project in collaboration with the Kuala Langat Area Farmers Organisation( PPK) is in line with the state government’s plan to intensify the local agriculture sector and food industry, besides utilising areas where there is no

PUTRAJAYA: With ceiling prices for chicken, eggs and bottled cooking oil to be removed after June 30, the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry will have its work cut out to ensure there are no drastic price hikes. Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Minister Datuk Seri Alexander Nanta Linggi said his ministry’s enforcement officers would be dispatched to check prices on the ground and weed out profiteering traders.“ Once the ceiling price is removed and the price of chicken and eggs is l

PETALING JAYA: Food inflation is about to rise further in Malaysia but with the government struggling from a limited fiscal capacity, it may not be able to fully shelter all Malaysians from soaring food prices. Experts said that the government would have to rethink its strategies to tackle rising food prices, without significantly hurting its coffers. Targeted subsidies, food vouchers and cash transfers are among the immediate short-term solutions recommended by experts, in order to protect Mala