KUALA LUMPUR, May 20 — Umno information chief Shahril Sufian Hamdan today said that the abolishment of approved permits to import food into the country was not a hasty decision, but a decisive step in being responsive to the country’s situation. Shahril said the move supports other policies, such as the previously announced price controls and subsidies as well as financial assistance of RM200 per month for rice farmers, as announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob yesterday.
His statement was in response to former minister of Agriculture and Food Industries Datuk Seri Salahuddin Ayub’s criticism that the abolishment of APs was a populist move and a rushed decision. Another factor that can be controlled by the move to abolish APs, according to Shahril Sufian, is the control of cartels over the local market. He hopes that the measure will loosen the grip of cartels, as anyone within the local market will be able to access alternative offshore market resources."Each country will need to act with their own measures to minimise the impact,” he said.
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