Kedah padi farmers brace for monsoon season


ALOR SETAR: Padi farmers here are bracing for the start of the southwest monsoon which is expected to mark the start of the dry spell until mid-September.

State water supply, water resources and public works committee chairman Datuk Suraya Yaacob said temperature and rainfall distribution are among the factors that could affect the padi harvest.

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