Rice subsidy gets praise, but not from farmers 


All for quality rice: A restaurant worker preparing a plate of rice for a customer at a restaurant in Kuala Lumpur. — AZHAR MAHFOF/The Star

PUTRAJAYA: Father-of-two Ahmad As-shakir has had to choose the cheapest rice in the market to feed his family.

“It’s almost fit for chicken feed,” the 39-year-old technician lamen­ted.

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