ADUN SPEAKS | Soon after the Finance Ministry announced the implementation of the targeted diesel subsidy initiative on June 10, I received a lot of public feedback on this. Maybe many reached out to me because before I was elected as an assemblyperson, I was involved in the plantation industry for many years. As we know, the country’s plantation sector uses diesel heavily. A lot of machinery in plantation estates is diesel-powered like tractors, harvesters and generators. In fact, under the government’s Budi Madani initiative, nearly 400,000 agro-commodity players qualify for the RM200 per mo…