Use pesticides with restraint, farmers told


KLUANG: Farmers have been reminded not to take the easy way to increase production by using excessive chemicals as it will affect the country’s export sector, said Agriculture and Agro-based Minister Datuk Salahuddin Ayub.

He said such methods would “kill” export opportunities of other agriculture products.

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