: The proposal to designate the National Farmers Organisation as an alternative rice importer and local white rice producer will be presented at tomorrow’s meeting of the National Action Council on Cost of Living , said Datuk Syed Abu Hussin Hafiz Syed Abdul FasalThe NACCOL Task Force chairman said that NAFAS’s direct involvement is a step to stabilise rice prices and ensure a sufficient supply of local white rice.
“... involvement from the beginning, from land preparation to rice production and distribution, can be managed by NAFAS, and they are ready to assist the government in facing pressures from cartels and then to sell rice at reasonable, stable and harmonised prices,“ he told a press conference at Parliament Building here today.
Syed Abu Hussin Hafiz said there are still exporters from India, Pakistan, Cambodia and Vietnam in the open market outside the country which can offer more competitive prices.
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