WE are at READ : the bronze level position on chicken consumption in the global stage, with a per capita consumption of 50KG
MEANWHILE, our rice consumption per capita, on a yearly basis READ : is about 79 kg, per person, per year.
NOW, that we have sorted out, the statistics behind our consumption habits, can the reader spot the key difference between the paddy farming sector and the poultry rearing business.
SINCE, the subject matter is Malaysia, READ : which shoulders the stigma as the second most racist nation in the planet, obviously we should be look at the rice farming business and poultry farming in a racial lense.
THE poultry sector , largely is controlled by ethnic Chinese, and despite chicken being very important to our diet, the Government has a very laissez faire attitude towards this sector, by mostly allowing demand and supply forces to determine the retail price YET, when it comes to the mostly Malay controlled paddy growing sector the government acts as a control freak, rubbishing the economics of supply and demand by insisting that the farmer MUST sell below market price.
ANWAR Ibrahim, should put a stop to this clearly discriminatory practise , which has been used by succesive governments against the mostly Malay padi farmers.
ALLOW them equal opportunity to taste Adam Smiths fruits on how demand and supply , has a bearing on price.
PADDY farmers, have long been the punching bag of PAS, greatest ally Dr Mahathir, who instead of introducing free market to the rice business, had a more racial READ : stereotype based reasoning on why the sector is failing.
