{"id":834969,"date":"2025-03-18T12:13:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T17:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/rice-shortage-umno-youth-leader-moots-bernas-restructuring\/"},"modified":"2025-03-18T12:13:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T17:13:45","slug":"rice-shortage-umno-youth-leader-moots-bernas-restructuring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/18\/rice-shortage-umno-youth-leader-moots-bernas-restructuring\/","title":{"rendered":"Rice shortage: Umno Youth leader moots Bernas&#8217; &#8216;restructuring&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.newscdn.net\/desktop\/img\/mk-small-logo-50.png\" alt=\"mk-logo\" width=\"16px\" height=\"16px\"><\/p>\n<p>News<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Rice shortage: Umno Youth leader moots Bernas&#8217; &#8216;restructuring&#8217;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><span>Published: <\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mar 4, 2025 7:04 PM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u22c5<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Updated: <\/span><\/p>\n<p>11:23 AM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>1<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share.php?u=https:\/\/www.malaysiakini.com\/news\/736289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/wa.me\/?text=https:\/\/www.malaysiakini.com\/news\/736289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https:\/\/www.malaysiakini.com\/news\/736289\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"story_content_analytics\">\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Amid questions raised over the supply of local rice in the domestic market, an Umno Youth leader has revived a proposal to break a monopoly held by Bernas. <\/p>\n<p>In making the call, Umno Youth exco Wan Zuhir Ghazali cited Agriculture and Food Security Minister Mohamad Sabu\u2019s statement that local and imported rice mixing has been a known practice tracing back to the 1970s, and there are no current laws outlining prosecution for offenders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<hr>\n<p><i>Please join the <a href=\"https:\/\/mk.my\/wa_mkini\">Malaysiakini WhatsApp Channel<\/a> to get the latest news and views that matter.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Unlocking Article<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Unlocking Article<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> Tama Kazmierczak<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malaysiakini.com\/news\/736289\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News Rice shortage: Umno Youth leader moots Bernas&#8217; &#8216;restructuring&#8217; Published: \u00a0 Mar 4, 2025 7:04 PM \u22c5 Updated: 11:23 AM 1 Amid questions raised over the supply of local rice in the domestic market, an Umno Youth leader has revived a proposal to break a monopoly held by Bernas. In making the call, Umno Youth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":834970,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22332,1351],"tags":[9969,8968],"class_list":{"0":"post-834969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-shortage","8":"category-youth","9":"tag-shortage","10":"tag-youth"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=834969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/834969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/834970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=834969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=834969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=834969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}