ALOR SETAR: Fixing the ceiling price of local white rice appears to have caused the unintended consequence of increasing prices of padi seeds by almost 30%, a predicament which leaves padi farmers stumped.
Farmers are now urging the government to review the price that millers pay them when they sell their freshly harvested rice to the mills, which currently stands at RM1,300 a tonne, up from RM1,200 previously.
