InfoSAWIT, KUALALUMPUR – In the recent days, Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries (CPOPC) targeted 93 percent crude palm oil producing countries would be the members next year, namely Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Colombia, Ghana, and Nigeria would join.

Vice General Secretary of CPOPC, Datuk Nageeb Wahab said the organization wants to get many countries from whole over continent to join CPOPC and those countries are in process to be members.

“We renewed agreement two years ago and that one year ago, every country should be our members. We got timeline for the next one year we are optimist that they would join. They are interest in but for some legislation in some countries, they postpone,” he said, as InfoSAWIT quoted from Bernama.

Nageeb also said, CPOPC would have much power and quality after Thailand joined because it is the third biggest country in the world but it postponed because the general election still runs.

“After general election in Thailand, we would do another approach with them because they would join, as they spoke with us prior,” he said. (T2)