The primary industries minister says the country will cap the area at around six million hectares.
PUTRAJAYA: Malaysia plans to halt all expansion of oil palm plantations this year as it seeks to dispel the oil’s reputation of being linked to deforestation.
That’s from 5.85 million hectares at the end of last year, which will give some leeway to growers who are in the midst of replanting or who have already bought land, she said. The European Union Commission last month submitted a delegated act that classifies palm oil from large plantations as unsustainable and suggests that the oil be excluded from the bloc’s biofuels target.
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