MALAYSIA’s rehabilitation for its addiction towards cheap foreign labour is now long overdue.
Covid-19 has come to disrupt the supply since last year and the withdrawal symptoms have already started to crop up.
The road to addiction may have very well started in the 1980s during Malaysia’s journey of industrialisation and economic growth where the temporary solution to meet the severe labour shortage was foreign workers.
The Medan Agreement was inked in 1984 for plantation and domestic workers while the later part of the 1980s would see the green light given to recruit workers from the Philippines, Thailand and Bangladesh. It was not really a problem, or at least those who tread the corridors of power did not seem to think it was, until Malaysia tried to climb the high-income ladder.
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SERDANG (March 9): The Malaysian Agricultural Research and Development Institute (MARDI) has introduced four food innovation products with health benefits, namely mixed soup with pegaga extract, high-protein jelly pudding premixed flour, high-fibre premixed bread flour and fermented coconut water.
“All these products, which have undergone about three years of research and development (R&D), are very much sought after because they contain basic nutrients like protein, fat, carbohydrates as well as disease-prevention properties,” Ministry of Agriculture and Food Industries deputy secretary-general (Policy) Datuk Haslina Abd Hamid told a press conference after officiating the 2020 National Food Technology Seminar here today.
On the marketing methods for the products, she said there were four approaches that could be implemented, namely exclusive or non-exclusive licensing, direct selling, cooperation between MARDI and interested companies, as well as appointing companies as distr