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KETEREH (April 10) : Barisan Nasional will introduce additional funding for padi farmers if it is returned as the federal government after the May 9 general election, Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek said today.

The additional allocation will be announced on the night of polling day if the election results favour the incumbent coalition, said Shabery.

In Budget 2018 tabled in October last year, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced an allocation of RM150 million specifically for padi farmers.

"I will not reveal [the additional allocation] here," Shabery told a crowd of some 1,000 padi farmers here.

"The additional funding will be announced on the night after the election, if our PM (Najib) remains as PM," the minister said.

Shabery was distributing monetary assistance — worth RM600 each — to representatives of 5,368 eligible padi farmers in Kelantan under the Agricultural Development Authority, for the three months between padi planting and harvesting season.

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