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Sunday, September 23, 2012

PKR: Noh, Tee Yong must explain bird's nest flip-flop



PKR vice-president Chua Jui Meng has called on Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Minister Noh Omar and his deputy Chua Tee Yong to explain the recent flip-flop in handling the bird's nest industry.

pkr congress 271110 jimmy chua jui mengJui Meng  (right) pointed out that the Agriculture Ministry had claimed the introduction of the radio frequency identification (RFID) system was the only way to end China's year-long ban on bird's nest exports from Malaysia but had now quietly backtracked on the matter.

"Both (Noh and Tee Yong) had been very insistent on the mandatory installation of RFID tags on boxes of bird nest exported by Malaysia (to China). They had gone on record, telling the media that it was China's demand to have the RFID clause in the protocol.

"Now that China has signed protocols with Indonesia and Thailand without such a clause, Noh and Tee Yong have been exposed as beating around the bush on their draft protocol. They have been distorting the issue to suit their agenda," he said in a statement.

Bird's nest farmers have vehemently opposed to the costly RFID tags, claiming that the contract to implement the system was being given to a crony at their expense.

"Noh and Tee Yong must explain clearly and convincingly their real intention for initially wanting a protocol with a clause for mandatory installation of RFID tags.
History had shown that greedy middlemen, backed by those in power, would zoom into multi-billion-ringgit industries to grab a slice of the cake," he said.
Transparency required
With the backtracking and plans to sign a new protocol in China, Jui Meng urged for the procedure to be conducted transparently.

"They are now trying to sign the protocol but the aggrieved traders and farmers do not know its actual contents. Is not the input of some 100,000 swiftlet farm houses and traders nationwide crucially relevant?" he said.

NONEJui Meng called on the ministry to emulate the protocols China signed with Indonesia and Thailand.

"According to the protocols signed by Indonesia and Thailand with China, all that is required for bird's nests to be exported to China is that the packaging and labeling of carry the product's name, weight, company name, address and registration number of processing establishments, product storage conditions and date of manufacture," he said.

He warned that if the matter was not solved swiftly it could lead to the collapse of the bird's nest industry, and both Noh and Tee Yong would be held responsible.

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