Ample sugar for consumers, says manufacturer

There is ample supply of sugar to cater for the needs of consumers, says Malayan Sugar Manufacturing Co Bhd (MSM), a refinery which has garnered 50 per cent of the domestic sugar market.

"Generally, supply is adequate except for pockets of shortage. MSM will coordinate with the government to meet the shortfall in certain areas.

"We have been asked by the government to pump in about 1,000 tonnes of sugar into the system and the supply will reach the affected areas in several days," said its Managing Director Chua Say Sin after a media & analysts briefing on plantation-based PPB Group's half-year results.

He said the current shortage in Kedah was because 70 per cent of supplies were chanelled to Kelantan.