Experts: Climate change, other factors hurting local rice supply

Climate change has inevitably become a major threat to the production of local rice - an issue that continues to persist, said agriculture researchers.

However, they say the unpredictable weather of floods and extreme heat is not the sole factor that is stirring up a storm in Malaysia’s rice bowl states.

Universiti Putra Malaysia Institute of Tropical Agriculture and Food Security fellow consultant Fatimah Mohamed Arshad attributed...