BENTONG: The agriculture and food security ministry has found that the shortage of local rice supplies stemmed from panic buying, sparked by a video falsely claiming that supplies were about to run out.
The ministry has also detected a trend of consumers shifting from purchases of imported rice to local rice, after the spike in prices due to India halting its rice exports, Berita Harian reported.The minister, Mohamad Sabu, said the situation had led to consumers “raiding” supermarkets and sundry shops to buy more local rice than usual, “changing their tastes” after the price of imported rice rose to between RM37 and RM40 per kg from the previous range of RM32 to RM34.
“So people then went on ‘raids’, buying three packs of rice when previously, they only bought one. When someone buys three packs, they take two from other people. Those that always bought two packs then bought four.”He cited the example of a woman in Pokok Sena, Kedah, who bought two packs of rice sold by the Farmers’ Organisation Authority and put them in her car’s boot.
Admitting that things were “chaotic” at the moment, he said the situation was recovering following the implementation of several short-term measures.
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