‘Nation's rice bowl’: Kedah MB says state 'instructed' to be poor

The present and past Kedah state administrations had been subjected to federal policies on land use which led to high poverty rates, said Menteri Besar Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor.

In an interview with English-daily The Star, Sanusi pointed to Kedah's status as one of Malaysia's rice bowls, aside from swathes of gazetted forest cover...