THE lush padi fields of Kedah and Perlis hide a dirty and potentially harmful secret. A secret that is on the plate of every Malaysian who eats local rice.
For the past six to seven years, rice growers throughout the two states have been pouring illegal pesticides smuggled from China on their crops to weed out siput gondang (golden apple snails)
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How are these chemicals getting past the enforcement agencies?
Posted 5 years ago by Ravinder Singh
Can MADA officials get up from their cosy chairs and get down to the bottom of this. Don't be too proud of yourself if you can find a suitable solution the least you could do is ask and seek helps from your counter part in Thailand. Is that too much to ask?? We are talking about the nation health interest here.
Posted 5 years ago by Teruna Kelana
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