Make food security the country’s priority

WE are feeling the pinch as our food prices have been rising in recent weeks.

It has been reported that Malaysia’s consumer price index (CPI) increased by 2.2% in March, which is comparatively low to those in many other countries like the UK (7.0%) and US (8.5%). However, this is no consolation to many ordinary Malaysians who are seeing their grocery bills spiking, with some basic foodstuff in short supply and subject to rapidly soaring prices.