THICK As Brick, the blog citing the Malay Mail states READ : nearly quarter of Malaysian paddy farmers earn below RM600 monthly, as rice cultivation programme fails to reach target.
THOSE numbers from the Auditors Report are an accurate reflection of what's happening in Malaysia, due to decades of neglect when it comes to the welfare of paddy farmers.
TO put things in perspective, we have laws today that is much better in protecting foreign labour, then our own kind. READ: Because we have to provide them with accommodation, pay the levy and Foreign Workers’ Medical Examination Screening System medical check-ups. When you include all that, foreign workers are getting paid more than RM1,500.
BASICALLY, our local paddy farmers are being cursed with a take home pay that is 60 per cent less in Ringgit terms and much more in absolute terms than foreign labour.
THIS should not be allowed to continue, and shockingly according to SCOOP, READ : BERNAS may actually owe paddy farmers hundreds of millions of Ringgit in back dated profit payments.
PERTUBUHAN Persaudaraan Pesawah Malaysia (PeSAWAH)'s Abdul Rashid Yob claims BERNAS was supposed to pay ten per cent of its profits from importing rice to paddy farmers and such payments were supposed to have taken place since 2014 .
SUPPOSED to have paid, and have paid are two different matters. If Syed Mokthar can afford to donate READ: RM195 million to Bersatu, the political party, what is indeed stopping the business men READ :who walloped a RM670.2 million in dividend in 2020 from Bernas for himself, from doing the right thing?
