KUALA LUMPUR: The trademarked Harumanis from Perlis, a popular seasonal mango reputed for its “double chin” and sweet flesh, has been introduced to Sabahans by airasia farm.
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KUALA LUMPUR: From Perlis to Sabah, half a tonne of Harumanis mangoes have jetted off to the Land Below the Wind on an AirAsia flight so that Sabahans may get their hands on the popular seasonal fruit.
Airasia farm, now an official distributor of Harumanis through cooperation with the Agriculture and Food Industries Ministry, sent the first shipment of the fruits to Sabah from KLIA2 on Friday (April 30) morning.
An AirAsia Group business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce platform, airasia farm was launched in June last year under the name OURFARM to enable farmers to connect directly to businesses.
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IN FOCUS: Changing weather patterns a bane for Malaysia s fishery sector Climate change has thrown monsoon, wind and wave patterns into disarray, affecting the fishermen’s operating costs and potential of pulling in a good catch.
Barrels of seafood ready to be loaded onto Hai Seng Huat s wharf from a fishing vessel. (Photo: Facebook/Hai Seng Huat Fishery Sdn Bhd)
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SEKINCHAN, Selangor: A crane operator carefully transferred barrels of seafood from a docked fishing boat’s deck to the Hai Seng Huat Fishery’s wharf, while customers walked gingerly on the wet floor of the fishery, making their picks.
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Win-win situation: ‘We are proud to report that one of the ministry’s biggest achievements is to sustain the food equilibrium to ensure the people are fed and farmers earn an income, ’ says Kiandee.
PETALING JAYA: The movement control order implemented in March last year sent Malaysians into a buying frenzy to stock up on essential items as many were worried that there would not be enough supply to sustain them at home.
Photos and videos of empty shelves in supermarkets and “clear” tables in wet markets made their rounds on various platforms of social media with captions
reading, among others, “All gone!”, “How to survive like this.” and “The (corona) virus not gonna kill us, these (empty shelves) will starve us to death”.