Thursday October 22, 2009

Malaysia Nanban reported that vegetable farmers in Cameron Highlands will continue to dump cabbages in front of the Cameron Highlands Federal Agriculture Marketing Authority (Fama) to protest the low price of the vegetable.

Cameron Highlands Vegetable Growers Association secretary Chay Ee Mong said the farmers were incurring losses since August due to the slump in the price of round cabbages.

He added the association was unhappy that Fama had failed to the monitor monthly import of over 4,000 metric tonnes of round cabbage from China and Indo-nesia.

He said that the the excessive import of the vegetable had affected prices and caused losses to the farmers.

>Tamil Nesan reported that Penang Deputy Chief Minister (II) Dr P. Ramasamy had said the state government is paying more attention to problems faced by Tamil schools.

He said efforts were being taken to upgrade the 28 Tamil schools in the state and that a special committee had been formed.

Dr Ramasamy said the state government was also trying to solve the land issue of many Tamil schools by looking for alternative sites.

Source: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/10/22/nation/4949013&sec=nation