The rising in Sabah vegetable prices are due to many factors such as supply and demand, shortage of workers as well as unpredictable weather, and not solely due to the rising price of fertilizers.
Yesterday, Parti Warisan vice president Datuk Junz Wong said the price of normal fertilizer had increased by 100 per cent from RM98 per 50kg to RM180. He had questioned how the prices of vegetables and fruits had not increased when the costs of planting had also gone up: "It is multifactorial. The fluctuation of the price is affected by the supply and demand. The supply chain is big from farmers to middlemen and retailers, this should be controlled. The same goes to the price of fertilizers, it is definitely going up when we buy imported items because our ringgit has weakened (against the US dollar).”
[ RM1 = €0.22 ]
Source: nst.com.my