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'Force oil palm firms to plant grain to solve rising chicken price'

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The government was urged to force large palm oil plantations to use 30 percent of their land to plant grains to produce animal feed to ensure food security in Malaysia.
Terengganu Amanah Youth chief Zamir Ghazali said without such interventions, Malaysia may be stuck in a food insecurity cycle "until the second coming".
He said previous attempts to ensure a local supply of animal feed through cooperatives, government agencies, or government-linked companies had failed for various reasons, including...
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