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 Rice shortage. - by @lbert
  Posted:12/05/2008 - 08:28 - in category: general
Shortage of rice in Malaysia.... can you imagine? Well the answer is YES!.
For years and years the contractors prefered paddi fields for city expansion, instead of using unarable land.
Padi fields are so easy and cheap to them.... just fill it with a layer of tanah merah, and you can start building and filling your pockets. Whereas other land quite often has to be levelled and takes a lot more money to prepare it for construction.
Here in Kedah around Alor Setar, Sungai Petani, even Guar Chempedak and Yan, thousands of acres of arable padi field became a 'taman' through the greed of contractors and a government (town council) that gives a damn.
So now you have the result there....no stupid Pak Tak Tahu story will help here....
Gone is gone, and it still goes on....

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