Struggling padi farmers await fair price boost

Hoping for a better yield: A padi farmer in Kedah checking out the crop. The key issue is that adjusting the floor price must be done in the best interest of farmers.

GEORGE TOWN: Padi farmers are awaiting a fairer increase in the floor price of padi, as many struggle to break even under the current government-set rates.”

Naka Farmers Association unit chief Abdul Kadir Ismail from Kedah said the current floor price of RM1,300 per tonne is unfair to farmers, and that RM1,800 per tonne would be a fairer rate.