KOTA BARU: The Government has set a uniform RM1,200 per tonne as the price for the purchase of padi from the farmers in the peninsula from the next harvest in a move to weed out the middlemen.
Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob, who announced this yesterday, said private rice millers would have to pay the same price for the padi from the farmers or have their licence revoked.
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