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PASIR PUTEH, Jan 23 — The Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industries (Mafi) has allocated a total of RM62 million for the pesticide incentive to paddy farmers this year, said its minister, Datuk Seri Ronald Kiandee. He said the allocation which saw farmers who were previously given RM200 per hectare as incentive, now getting an additional RM100, making it a total of RM300 and benefiting more than 300,000 farmers. “The paddy and rice industry is overseen by the government, in terms of the incentives given which have not been reduced.” He said this at a press conference after launching the...
