Indian vegetable farmers in Cameron Highlands abandoned by UMNO’s FAMA abused by middle men.

Indian vegetable farmers in Cameron Highlands abandoned by UMNO’s FAMA abused by middle men.
The Malay muslim padi, pineapple, fruits and other farmers nationwide gets the help of the Federal agriculture marketing authorities assistance.
These farmers have the option of selling their produce to FAMA who will buy them at a fair price and so avoid being exploited by the middlemen, and also regulate import of similar produce from overseas to protect the local farmers.
But for especially the Indian farmers in Cameron Highlands, FAMA does not apply the same standards just because as usual the victims are Indians. FAMA does not care that these Indian farmers are exploited by the middlemen.
Why can’t FAMA similarly offer to buy these farmers produce on the similar terms offered to the malay muslim farmers?
The Lembaga Pertubuhan Peladang (LPP) presumably has thousands of branches through out the country to help, guide, give the best expertise, highest yielding agricultural technology, subsidized fertilizer, pesticides, equipment, agriculture loans etc.
But we have never seen a single LPP signboard in Cameron Highlands as the beneficiaries would be largely the Indians. Inseasd Nanthakumar has to buy fertilizers at RM 120 per bottle ,which had cost him only RM 64.00 in December 2009.
The UMNO Pahang State government has refused to grant freehold titles to thousands of these third and forth generation Indian farmers just because they are Indians.
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P. Uthayakumar