Pakatan Harapan's Agriculture Ministry has been applauded for doing what many successive BN governments have failed to do – breaking up Padiberas Nasional Bhd's (Bernas) monopoly of rice imports.

It took Agriculture Minister Salahuddin Ayub just two weeks on the job to end years of the company making huge profits for its shareholders at the expense of rice farmers and consumers, said Bukit Tengah assemblyperson Gooi Hsiao-Leung...