{"id":58422,"date":"2023-09-08T17:34:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T09:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-my-161844363.ap-southeast-1.elb.amazonaws.com\/articles\/?p=58422"},"modified":"2023-09-08T17:34:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T09:34:37","slug":"100kg-rice-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imoney.my\/articles\/100kg-rice-person","title":{"rendered":"Govt Sets Limits For Buying Of Local White Rice"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Agriculture and Food Security Ministry is restricting the purchase of local white rice to 100kg per person, effective immediately.<\/span><\/p>\n According to the director-general of the agriculture and food security ministry\u2019s padi and rice regulatory division, Azman Mahmood<\/a>, the restriction is put in place with the aim of addressing disruptions of the white rice market.<\/span><\/p>\n Azman revealed that this move was put in place after his division found out that some traders have been hoarding local white rice, buying up to 5000 -7000kg at once.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s why we are implementing this restriction starting from today,\u201d he told reporters at the Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute headquarters yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n According to Azman, the restriction is in no way permanent, as it will only be imposed until the supply of local white rice normalizes.<\/span><\/p>\n He also added that the government has sufficient stocks to last six months.<\/span><\/p>\n The hoarding of local white rice is due to the increase in price for imported rice, which in turn was caused by disruptions faced by the two biggest exporting countries, <\/span>Vietnam<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>India<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n According to users on Tiktok,<\/a> this has caused supplies of local white rice to dwindle, to the point of scarcity in some areas.<\/p>\n