Fertiliser shortage may impact vege harvests

Feeling the heat: Besides supply pressures, farmers like Sulaiman Ismail, 39, removing damaged long bean plants in Kampung Minda, Dungun, have had to also contend with the heatwave. — Bernama

PETALING JAYA: Vegetable harvests in the country are likely to fall if a shortage of fertilisers persists over the next one to two months, says the Federation of Vegetable Farmers Associations of Malaysia.

Its president Lim Ser Kwee said fertiliser prices have risen by about 40% this month due to prolonged global supply disruptions.