287,000 workers register for self-employed scheme

Zahari says 149,743 people in Johor’s agriculture sector have registered under Socso’s Self-Employment Social Security Scheme.

CLOSE to 287,000 people in Johor have registered for the Social Security Organisation’s (Socso) Self-Employment Social Security Scheme. The recorded figure is for up to February this year.

Johor agriculture, agro-based industry and rural development committee chairman Datuk Zahari Sarip said that of this number, 149,743 were in the agricultural industry.