Govt to consider putting coconut under Malaysian Cocoa Board’s purview
Deputy PM Fadillah Yusof says the Plantation and Commodities Ministry will consider including coconut as one of the national commodities under it. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, August 6, 2023.
Deputy Prime Minister and Plantation and Commodities Minister Fadillah Yusof said this proposal by smallholders will be discussed at the higher levels. “Hence, cocoa and coconuts will come under the Malaysian Cocoa Board’s ambit and we will take the proposal to the higher levels to see what can be done,” he told the media after meeting cocoa plant entrepreneurs in Tanjung Sepat, Selangor today as part of the Central Peninsular Zone Commodity Trek Programme 2023 organised by the ministry.
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