LIMBANG: Local supplies of essential food items for the whole of Ramadan, including Hari Raya Puasa and Gawai Dayak are sufficient for three months.
Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan, who is also chairman of Food Supply Sub-committee under the State Disaster Management Committee (SDMC) visited food suppliers to check their stocks yesterday.
Among the food stocks that are being monitored by the Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry here and Lawas are chicken eggs (current average stock — 215,070 eggs, chicken meat (current average stock — 10,878kg), cooking oil (current average stock — 71.9 tonnes), flour (current average stock —- 24.5 tonnes), sugar (current average stock — 19.6 tonnes), rice (current average stock —- 107.2 tonnes), and liquefied petroleum gas (current average stock — 2,616 barrels).
Awang Tengah emphasised that the ministry would constantly monitor the suppliers and shops in view of the coming festive seasons.
“The supply of basic necessities for rural areas at the point-of-sale centres will not be affected as the May quota will be increased by the June quota,” he told reporters yesterday.
Awang Tengah, who is also Second Minister of Urban Development and Natural Resources (II), added that the ministry would place orders for food if the stocks were insufficient for this town and the point-of-sale centres.
He revealed that food suppliers were stocking up on sugar. Currently the town has 12 tonnes in stock and the ministry has ordered the suppliers to stock up to 100 tonnes.
There are 73 tonnes of rice in stock so the ministry has placed an order for new stocks.
From Jan 1 until May 13, the ministry in Limbang has carried out 2,206 inspections of business premises, including manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, and daily monitoring of food supplies in urban and rural areas.
