Cameron farmers urge stricter controls on vegetable imports
Farmers in Cameron Highlands are urging the government to tighten import controls on vegetables, warning that existing measures are insufficient to shield them from the influx of low-cost produce from abroad.
Chay Ee Mong, secretary of the Cameron Highlands Vegetable Growers Association and deputy chairman of the Federation of Malaysian Vegetable Farmers’ Associations, said foreign vegetables, especially from China, were threatening the viability of their local equivalents.
“At the farm gate, prices are often just 50 or 60 sen per kilo, and cheap imports make it worse. Imported vegetables come in freely without tariffs or duties, and we cannot compete,” he said.
Chay urged the government to act in the upcoming federal budget to protect farmers.
“What we want in the coming budget is for the government to…
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