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Monday, May 12, 2008

Rice price is Rise!...

In the moment where all the peoples in the world had worried about the fuel price that keep increasing..now, the new disaster had came...The rice price is also rising...What had happen until this essential item also need to be rice..

According to the Agriculture Secretary Arthur Yap quoted M Syeduzzaman, chair of BOC Bangladesh Ltd, Bangladesh Rice Foundation said that the reason for the rice price increase is:

1.A supply largely affected by an increased demand resulting from rising population.

2.Climate change.

3.Booming demand for biofuels.

4.Continuous conversion of agricultural lands to non-agriculture use.

5.Neglect of irrigation facilities.

This problem is referring to the world largest rice exporter such as Cambodia, India and others...but it is not applicable to Malaysia because neither of it is happen to our country and also our rice product is totally for local use...

Malaysian paddy field product can support up to 70% of local demand in rice and only 30% of the rice product were import from other countries...So what we can say is, we are not totally depend on export rice...So, the question is why our country also suffered the rice price crisis although we are the country which can produce rice by ourselves....?

It seem that there is a manipulation in rice price by the wholesaler in Malaysia. The issue where some of the wholesaler change the price of 15% shattered rice to the price of 5-10% shattered rice price had made peoples realized that how cruel are they...In pursuing profit, they could do that...

Many of the peoples had suggest to the government where they should think about distributing the rice to the peoples without using the wholesaler and the 'middle person' to ensure the Malaysian rice stock is distribute well without any divertion...

But this issue that really matter now is, what can Malaysian government do in solving this matter?...Any strategy that will be introduced by Barisan Nasional(BN) governement now will effect the perspectives of the Malaysian peoples either it will be positive or else...

Either they realized or not, this issue is not just an issue that will effect Malaysian peoples live..but also effecting their parties relevancy...Malaysian peoples will always watching their strategy to cater the need of peoples and also their party....



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