KUALA LUMPUR -- Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister Fadillah Yusof on Thursday said the European Union's Deforestation Regulation was biased against small-scale producers of palm oil in Malaysia and called on the EU to end its "discrimination" against them.
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A worker holds palm oil fruit at a plantation in Slim River, Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur says new EU rules aimed at preventing deforestation discriminate against small producers of palm oil. © Reuters
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