For the past couple of years, Malaysians have struggled with a shortage of local white rice. This is despite the Government’s ongoing interventions, its promises to crack down on rice-mixing, and its plans to distribute 24 million bags of rice at RM26 each. But are these just short-term fixes to a broken supply system? On this episode of #ConsiderThis Melisa Idris speaks with Datuk Dr Ameer Ali Mydin, Managing Director of the hypermarket & emporium chain Mydin, and Syed Zikiri Syed Hassan Shahabudin, Head of the Malay Consultative Council’s Food Security Cluster.
