EU banning palm oil just to protect their own oilseed, local producers say
Sunday, 26 Jan 2020 06:00 PM MYTMalaysia Palm Oil Association chief executive Datuk Nageeb Wahab speaks to Malay Mail during an interview in Shah Alam January 11, 2020. ― Picture by Yusof Mat Isa
“The reason they claim to ban palm oil is on the grounds of environmental issues such as deforestation and even stating that we killed endangered animals such as the orangutan. This is not true and has been over-exaggerated. Nageeb admitted that such incidences of deforestation and the death of an endangered animals do happen, but stressed that they were isolated incidences and overstated.
In the EU, agriculture development, including subsidies comes under the Common Agricultural Policy, which saw an overall expenditure of €58.82 billion .
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