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Smallholders feeling the pinch

By FOONG PEK YEE
Centre stage: Dr Wee addressing party members at the 65th MCA’s Annual General Assembly.

DING wakes up at 6am and heads to his oil palm smallholding before joining his friends for breakfast at the coffeeshop in Ayer Tawar, Sitiawan.

This is the routine of thousands of smallholders in the country.

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