As per Fuziah Salleh, quantity of onions available in the Malaysian market currently is adequate and could be maintained. The deputy Minister of Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Minister claimed that, although the supply of onions have not suffered any disruption however, the government is working to procure supplies of onion from other countries in order to keep it stable.

“I believe that the current onion inventory will last many years because by the comments received from the industry and the industry, they reported that they didn’t have any problems in managing the amount of stock,” she told reporters in response to India’s decision to restrict exports of onions with a minimum export value of $800 (RM3,754) per ton from October 29 to the expiration date of.

Source: thestar.com.my