KUALA LUMPUR: Uncertain weather and diseases throughout the last harvest season between April and August have caused the supply of local white rice to face slight ‘interruptions’ in the market.
Farmers Organisation Authority deputy director of development Amir Mat Amin usually, on average, padi yield per harvest can reach seven metric tonnes per hectare, but for last season it dipped to only four metric tonnes.
In early September, Padiberas Nasional Bhd adjusted the price of imported white rice nationwide from RM2,350 a tonne to RM3,200 a tonne in line with current global market prices. Checks at several supermarkets and grocery stores around Sungai Buloh and Shah Alam found depleted supplies of local white rice on the shelves.
In Pahang, trader Muhammad Yusuf Hashim, 40, from Felda Selancar 2, Rompin, said he has not been getting his regular supply of local white rice for the past month, which has left him only selling imported rice for the time being."At first I didn't believe it either, but when I asked kept asking around, some took me to their warehouse so I could see for myself that the place was empty,” he said.
In Perak, Bercham Econsave manager GV Rakesh said the lack of local white rice in his store in Ipoh was not something new, adding that the shortage began in June.
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