Agriculture Ministry hands over RM300k in incentives to Penang padi farmers


  • Nation
  • Saturday, 20 Apr 2019

KEPALA BATAS, 20 April -- Timbalan Menteri Pertanian dan Industri Asas Tani Sim Tze Tzin (dua, kanan) ketika mengadakan lawatan pada Kempen Penggunaan Benih Padi Sah peringkat negeri hari ini. --fotoBERNAMA (2019) HAK CIPTA TERPELIHARA

KEPALA BATAS (Bernama): The Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Ministry today handed Padi Planting Management Model Plot incentives of RM303,875 to padi farmers in Penang.

Deputy Minister Sim Tze Tzin said the padi farmers who received the incentive were picked based on areas that were identified as having low harvests - less than five metric tonnes per hectare due to problems of land, weeds, pests and diseases.

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