Malaysia to import chicken eggs for now (Poll Inside)


PETALING JAYA: Malaysia will temporarily import chicken eggs as a stopgap measure to address the country’s egg supply shortage until a long-term solution is decided, says Agriculture and Food Security Minister Mohamad Sabu.

The short-term solution was vital to ensure the food security of Malaysians who consumed around 968 million chicken eggs monthly, he said in a Facebook post yesterday.

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