Floods: Trader uses boat to buy from growers unable to deliver crops


SEGAMAT: A fruit seller’s initiative to buy from fruit growers in Kampung Serakek and Kampung Simpang Jabi here has helped in easing their burdens as they were unable to deliver their crops to traders due to floods.

Mahathir Mahmud (pic), 43, said he hoped his small effort would help the villagers whose income mostly depended on selling fruits grown in their orchards.

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