{"id":2875,"date":"2022-05-21T11:07:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T11:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/?p=2875"},"modified":"2022-05-21T12:33:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T12:33:10","slug":"looming-food-scarcity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevillagemyhome.com\/zh\/looming-food-scarcity\/","title":{"rendered":"Looming food scarcity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tan Tean Chee says food security for the people is important<\/strong><\/div>\n
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By Foong Pek Yee<\/div>\n
foongpekyee@gmail.com<\/a><\/div>\n
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The supply of some 60,000 kilogram vegetables from Chemor daily risks disruption when the farmland is taken over for development, says Chemor Modern Farmers Association.<\/div>\n
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Its chairman Tan Tean Chee says Chemor in Perak is one of the major suppliers of vegetables daily, producing some 60,000 kilogram of a variety of greens like spinach, kangkung, choy sam, brinjals, chillies, turnips, spring onions and maize.<\/div>\n
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These are sold to wholesale markets in Ipoh, Penang, Kedah, Kelantan and Selayang.<\/div>\n
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“Climatic change is already threatening food supply worldwide, ” notes Tan, adding that any other disruption like shrinking farmland should be avoided.<\/div>\n
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On that note, he expresses his concern as some of the farmers toiling on about 1,200 acres of farmland in Chemor had received eviction notice last December.<\/div>\n
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About half of the 293 members in the association were affected, he adds.<\/div>\n
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Tan, 60, who is a third generation farmer in his family says the soil and environment in Chemor is conducive for vegetable farming.<\/div>\n
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According to the elderly villagers, vegetable farming in the area is dated back to the 1920s.<\/div>\n
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Tan says vegetable farming is labour intensive, crediting the farmers in Chemor for their hard work and resilience in ensuring steady supply to the market.<\/div>\n
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He says all is well until 2005 when some of the farmers who do not have legal documents to use the land had to evict to make way for development.<\/div>\n
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Two years later, in 2007, the association was set up to help the farmers.<\/div>\n
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Tan says the farmers want to pay to lease the land so that they can continue to farm and contribute to the food supply in the country.<\/div>\n
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Meanwhile Dr Jeyakumar Devaraj who has been helping the farmers says the authorities concerned should look at farming as food security for the people in the long term.<\/div>\n
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He points out that climatic change and\u00a0 food scarcity which\u00a0 is already happening worldwide is set to escalate, and this is something that needs the authorities’ urgent attention.<\/div>\n
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Dr Jeyakumar suggests the existing farmland in Chemor\u00a0 be preserved instead of making way for mega projects.<\/div>\n
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While mega projects are important for the economy, the\u00a0 Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) chairman says the farmers who have been working hard for a living and contributing to the food supply for the people is also doing something important for the country.<\/div>\n
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