Middlemen can help control rise in prices of fresh produce, says Anwar


PUTRAJAYA: If middlemen could accept reasonable profits, it can help control the rise in prices of fresh produce for the rakyat, says Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

"It is the middleman that causes prices to rise and this is a theory which was spoken of by Ungku Aziz (the late Royal Prof Ungku Abdul Aziz Ungku Abdul Hamid) as the irregularities in the marketing structure.

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