Call to ease burden of padi farmers

KOTA BARU: The Kelantan government has been urged to waive water tax imposed on 8,000 padi farmers owing to the dry season.

The RM10 per hectare levied annually was a burden to the farmers, especially when their income was unstable as their padi planting was being disrupted by the lack of irrigation water, said Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Minister Datuk Ismail Sabri Yaakob.