PETALING JAYA: Vegetables and seafood now cost more due to a drop in yield caused by the rainy season, and if the bad weather persists, prices are expected to soar even higher for the Chinese New Year period.
Federation of Vegetable Farmers Associations president Lim Ser Kwee said harvests had been dropping due to the wet northeast monsoon season.
“If it continues to rain for the next two weeks, surely the prices of vegetables will go up for Chinese New Year because our harvest suffers when there is heavy rainfall.
“Buyers from Singapore have also started coming here to buy vegetables in our markets as the school holidays have started over there, so there is less supply in the market,” he said when contacted yesterday.
Kuala Lumpur Vegetable Wholesalers’ Association president Wong Keng Fatt…
