TUARAN: The proposal to increase the floor price of scrap rubber from the current RM2.50 per kg to RM3.50 per kg will prevent smallholders from switching to other commodity crops, says Rural Development Minister Datuk Seri Mahdzir Khalid.
“If no action is taken, then rubber smallholders will switch to planting other crops with higher prices, especially oil palm, which will then result in the country losing rubber commodity producers.
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