SEGAMAT: A fruit seller’s initiative to buy from fruit growers in Kampung Serakek and Kampung Simpang Jabi here has helped in easing their burdens as they were unable to deliver their crops to traders due to floods.
Mahathir Mahmud , 43, said he hoped his small effort would help the villagers whose income mostly depended on selling fruits grown in their orchards.
"Realising their difficulties, I took it upon myself to go to the villages by boat and buy their crops even in small quantities because I do not want them to lose their source of income during difficult times like these," he said when met by Bernama at his stall in Buloh Kasap here Thursday . Meanwhile, a rubber farmer Mohd Zahari Abdul Samad, 47, said he could not go out to work for almost a week now as the road leading to his rubber plantation was flooded, which had also damaged some of the trees.
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