Golden Palm Growers plantation in Gua Musang, Kelantan.
IT has been reported that the Primary Industries Ministry is not going to allow any more land to be used as oil palm plantations in the country. Primary Industries Minister Teresa Kok was quoted as saying on Sept 4 after her keynote address at the Corporate Malaysia Summit that this was to fulfil Malaysia’s commitment to the international community to keep 54.6% of our land as forest reserves.
The message suggests that expanding the oil palm acreage would not augur well for our forest cover. Some may also conclude that it is palm oil that has been responsible for the decimation of our forests. This correlation is simply untrue.
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