If you think we’re having it hard with the withering weather, farmers across the Causeway are having it way harder as they grapple with both working under the intense heat and crummy harvests.
Vegetables grown in Malaysia have seen reduced stocks as the hot and dry climate parched farms with temperatures in some places hitting over 37°C, Channel NewAsia reports. As a result, Malaysian-grown produce imported into Singapore will be seeing increased prices as supplies look set to drop by about 30 percent in the weeks to come.
Already, prices of greens such as chye sim, spinach and xiao bai cai in wet markets here have gone up — even doubling in some cases.
Meanwhile, the weather in the northern part of China has been getting more ideal, resulting in large volumes of produce coming in. As such, prices of vegetables from China have been dropping, and that’ll offset the high expenditure in wet markets.
