smuggling out of cooking oil to neighbouring countries

curb the smuggling of cooking oil to neighbouring countries, the government will introduce a cooking oil quota that presently is placed at 70,000 metric tonnes a year to ensure that supply really benefits the local populace.Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities Datuk Hamzah Zainudin said his ministry was worried with the activity of the smuggling out of cooking oil to neighbouring countries that was on the rise and this made such activity a lucrative trade.He said however the amount of outflow was more than the local needs."Given local estimations our country needs only 50,000 metric tonnes a year and 20,000 metric tonnes disappears for no apparent reason"Whereas we (the goverment) need to keep the quota or need to reduce it needs review," he said at a dialogue and dinner event of a Barisan Nasional (BN)leadership function here Sunday.He was replying to a question by the deputy Umno Youth chief of the Gua Musang division, Zamzani Harun, who wanted to know whether the cooking oil quota needed to be increased to meet needs in certain areas.