寻求燕窝出口批准
IPOH: The newly-formed Malaysia Birds Nest Alliance wants the Government to allow industry players to export raw and unprocessed birds' nests (RUBN) to more countries.
Its president Lim Lai Soon said the alliance would submit a memorandum to the Prime Minister at Parliament on Tuesday. He said nearly all of the country's RUBN producers and farmers were currently in a limbo as the export ban from China on birds nest imports had yet to be lifted. “We want the Prime Minister to help by allowing us to export RUBN to Korea, Taiwan and other countries.“There is also a great demand from factories and producers for RUBN in China,” he said here yesterday. Lim also said the alliance was made aware that the protocol signing between Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry Minister Datuk Seri Noh Omar and the Chinese last month was only for the re-entry of edible bird nests (EBN) into China. ”The protocol will see China accepting only the EBN while the RUBN will still be kept in storage here.“A lot of industry players, especially swiftlet farmers are affected by this new protocol, causing millions in losses every month,” he said.
Last month, Noh Omar signed the protocol in Nanning with China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine Minister Zhi Shuping to allow the export of birds nest products into China. Last week, Deputy Agriculture and Agro-Based Industry Minister Datuk Chua Tee Yong said Malaysia hoped to resume export of raw cleaned birds nest in December. Lim said about 50 tonnes of RUBN were harvested and produced every month by some 60,000 swiflet farms.“RUBN is worth between RM4,000 and RM5,000 per kg,” he said.
新成立的马来西亚燕窝联盟希望政府允许业内人士向更多国家出口原始的未加工的燕窝(RUBN)。
联盟总裁Lim Lai Soon表示,在周二议会上,该联盟已经将向总理提交了一份备忘录,并表示由于中国对燕窝进口尚未解除出口禁令,所以几乎所有的国家的RUBN生产商和燕农目前都处于一个中间状态。他说“我们希望首相帮助我们,使我们的RUBN可以出口到韩国,台湾等其他国家和地区”。并且对于RUBN的需求量,中国很多工厂和生产厂商的需求还是很大的。林还表示,该联盟已经获悉农业及农基工业部部长拿督斯里能奥马尔和中国上个月签署的协议只是重新允许食用燕窝(EBN)进入中国。“该协议只是说中国只接受了EBN,而非RUBN,导致RUBN仍然会滞留而无法出口到中国。”“很多业内人士,尤其是燕农受到这项新的协议的影响,造成每个月数百万元的经济损失,”他说。
上个月,在中国南宁,能奥马尔与中国总局国家质量监督检验检疫总局局长支树平签署了允许出口到中国的燕窝协议。上周,副农业及农基工业部长拿督表示,马来西亚希望可以在十二月恢复出口清洗燕窝。林说,60,000个燕农每个月大约会收获和生产约50吨的燕窝,而RUBN每公斤价格在RM4000到 RM5000之间”。