Teresa Kok clarifies ‘plant bamboo’ remark
Primary Industries Minister Teresa Kok speaks during a press conference in Putrajaya January 28, 2019. — Picture by Mukhriz Hazim
KUALA LUMPUR, March 3 — Primary Industries Minister Teresa Kok today clarified that her earlier suggestion to cultivate bamboo was to counter the negative perception in the West towards Malaysia’s mass plantation of oil palms and its products. She said bamboo was only one of several crops she had suggested as alternatives and should not be taken to mean replacing oil palm as a commodity entirely as may be mistaken from the headline in the weekend edition of“Bamboo, pineapple and coconut as I mentioned yesterday are alternatives suggestions to smallholders who have all this while relied solely on oil palm as the source of their supplementary income,” she said in a statement in response to the Malay paper’s report headlined “Lupakan...
“I explained these were done by the government as a measure to combat the anti-palm oil sentiments in Europe which is now affecting the export of palm oil to the global market, in particular European countries,” she added.
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