YOURSAY | 'The minute the rain clears the haze, everyone, including the ministers and the media, forgets the issue...'
| 'The minute the rain clears the haze, everyone, including the ministers and the media, forgets the issue...'This haze is a seasonal problem, so also is the handling of the haze issue. The minute the rain clears the haze, everyone, including the ministers and the media, forgets the issue until the next occurrence.
For instance, if a farmer has four acres of old oil palm trees that he just chopped down, he has about 200 huge tree trunks plus branches and leaves to get rid of. It would take 20-30 lorry loads to do the job. If each load cost RM100, he is staring at RM2,000-RM3,000 in"unnecessary" cost. The fires usually originate from “unoccupied” or “vacant” land areas as local farmers clear the land for food or cash crops cheaply by"slash and burn" methods and not old oil palm areas.
The biomass is fertile breeding areas for the very damaging Rhinoceros beetle pest and also could be an important reason for the surge in the fatal Basal Stem Rot from Ganoderma fungus, which also spreads in the rotting trunk biomass.Siti Nurbaya Bakar is perfectly qualified to join Umno or Bersatu and instantly be appointed a minister. The Indonesian environment and forestry minister is showing all the prerequisite skills and knowledge.
This is a crisis that is affecting the health of Malaysians and we expect a little more of our leader. After all, he is jet setting all over the world to handle other important issues and attending to the plight of other communities and nations.I remembered reports from previous years where Malaysian companies were similarly implicated.
Reporting of their environmental and social performance was so good that they stood above their competitors.
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