Recipe for Disaster
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
THIS system provides loopholes for corruption and is a cash cow for rent seekers. In the end, consumers and the public lose out. Under the quota system, commodity imports come under the control of a few people who can hoard goods and flood the market whenever they choose.
This mistake began from a fundamentally flawed concept. In 2017, when Amran Sulaiman was minister of agriculture, the government proclaimed its support for self-sufficiency for
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