Federation of Vegetable Farmers Associations president Lim Ser Kwee said harvests had been dropping due to the wet northeast monsoon season. Kuala Lumpur Vegetable Wholesalers’ Association president Wong Keng Fatt said the prices of vegetables had started increasing recently by between 10% and 20% but would rise if there were floods. Wong said wholesale prices of vegetables had currently gone up, with sawi costing between RM5 and RM5.50 compared with about RM3 normally. “The wholesale price for spinach is now between RM6 and RM6.50 compared with its usual RM2 or RM3,” he added. “Farmers don’t easily get to sell at a higher price, it is the distributors who control the market price.
