Sustainability top priority for timber, strategic commodity industries, says minister


Datuk Dr Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali. - Filepic/The Star

BUTTERWORTH: The government has ensured that timber and other strategic commodity industries in the country practise only the best sustainable approach so that it will not harm the nation's forest reserves, says Datuk Dr Mohd Khairuddin Aman Razali.

The Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister said that under the ministry's Blueprint Plan for 2021 until 2030, sustainability was the number one priority for the country in the next 10 years.

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