Primary Industries Minister Teresa Kok says it is not fair to blame the oil palm industry whenever the haze occurs, especially at the large plantations. — Reuters pic
Kok said she believed that the big plantation companies would not practise open burning as they had adopted good agricultural practices either through the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil or Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil certification scheme. Kok said she would be heading to Indonesia next month to meet Indonesia's Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs, Darmin Nasution to discuss various issues related to the oil palm industry, including haze.
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