A genuine snakeskin handbag like this could fetch up to more than RM21,000.
Python farms could be the antidote to the RM3.2bil-a-year black market in these fashionable and expensive skins.
Illegally traded python skins worth US$1bil (RM3.2bil) are being imported into Europe every year as weak regulation fails to stop illicit traders capitalising on demand for the dramatically patterned leather.
