Malaysians doing their part to curb MCO food wastage

Chen and members from What a Waste (WaW) have been working around the clock to redistribute food to the needy during the MCO.

THE movement control order (MCO) may have led to an unintended side-effect of food wastage or supply-chain disruption, but some Malaysians are doing what they can to ensure food continues to be accessible and limit wastage. One is entrepreneur and Durian King owner Erik Ong who is assisting farmers by connecting them directly to consumers via the newly-launched E-petani Malaysia website which he co-founded with his business partner May Teh.

“The Kuala Lumpur-Selangor Fruit Farmers Association asked if I can help the other farmers sell their produce because the wholesale markets and their other networks and supply chains were affected by the MCO,” says Ong.