THE Consumers Association of Penang (CAP) has expressed shock over the rights given by the Agriculture Ministry to middlemen to determine the price of vegetables, reported Tamil Nesan and Malaysia Nanban.
The dailies quoted CAP president S.M. Mohd Idris as saying that middlemen often fixed very high prices for the vegetables that they bought cheap from the farmers.
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