We cannot afford to neglect farmers

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Malaysia has so far been fortunate that the Covid-19 crisis has not led to a severe food shortage in the country despite initial reports of panic buying after the lockdown was announced. Many people may be out of jobs, broke and hungry, but few are starving. However, since the risk of getting infected with Covid-19 remains until a vaccine against it is found and since no one can predict when life will return to normal again, it would be wise for the government to pay serious attention to food security. In the past, millions in many countries have perished due to food scarcity. We hope that Covid-19 will not go down as the country’s first ever natural disaster to cause widespread hunger. We have heard reports of migrant workers and refugees in the country not getting enough food. But these are largely localised issues and not comparable to the general lack of access to food seen in…