For the needy: Shop owner Rosidah Mansor stocking up a food bank with bags of essential items in Bayan Baru. CHAN BOON KAI/The Star
GEORGE TOWN: With the emergence of the White Flag movement, more kind-hearted Malaysians are coming out to set up food banks.
Unfortunately, some food banks were met with abuse. Rations laid out for the needy were cleaned out in a short time, often by the same individuals.
Sundry store owner Rosidah Mansor started a food bank in March for the needy.
“The essentials ran out quickly and stocking up three times a day was not enough. So we started recording names and packed essentials like cooking oil, rice, noodles, eggs, flour and other rations in one big pack to give out.
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PETALING JAYA: There s plenty of good reasons why the durian is called the king of fruits.
Durio zibethinus Murr – the botanical name of the Malaysian durian – reigns supreme as the country’s top fruit with 377,251 metric tonnes produced in 2019, according to the Agriculture Department.
Its figures show that durian is planted on a total of 70,286ha of land – this is almost equal to the size of Singapore, which is 72,830ha in terms of land area.
Malaysia’s durians are also proving to be resilient in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The country’s durian season started in May, but the lockdown has made it hard to buy the fruit directly from stalls or by the roadside.