Rice industry in dire straits despite billions in federal aid, says KRI study | Malay Mail

Lead author and Research Associate at Khazanah Research Institute Dr Sarena Che Omar, April 10, 2019. ― Picture by Choo Choy May

If left unaddressed, KRI said any supply shock risk hurting the most vulnerable groups such as the poor, rural residents or migrant workers, the most dependent on rice as a food source. KRI said this definition only covers availability and exclude nutritional importance of other food, which pushes farmers to focus only on meeting production targets, neglect quality and resort to unsustainable methods like the overuse of dangerous but cheap pesticides.

Malaysia ranks among nations with the highest obesity rate, according to the World Health Organisation in 2018.

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