(Daily Express) Malaysia and Indonesia plan to appoint an “Ambassador of Palm Oil” to promote the benefits of consuming palm oil products in the international market.
Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities, Datuk Seri Mah Siew Keong, said anti-palm oil lobbying group has given a lot of misrepresentations about the edible vegetable oil.
He said producers were now facing the evolving non-tariff barriers in major importing countries.
“These include food products with ‘No Palm Oil’ labels and proposal to impose high import tax on palm oil products.
This is a form of discrimination to us,” he said.
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He said the two countries also agreed to cooperate in promoting the use of biodiesel in other countries especially in China.
“China is looking to overcome the environmental problems and we are trying to convince the Chinese government that B5 or B10 biodiesel can bring some good impacts,” he said.
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Mah said eight palm oil producing countries – Thailand, Nigeria, Colombia, Papua New Guinea, Ivory Coast, Honduras, Guatemala and Brazil – were interested to join the CPOPC. READ MORE