GIVEN the issues related to getting foreign labour from Bangladesh and Indonesia, workers from India and Pakistan may be the short-term solution for the plantation industry, which has been severely hit by a manpower crunch.
Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Zuraida Kamaruddin said India and Pakistan have offered to send their citizens to work in Malaysian plantations.
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