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Malaysia donates 1 million eggs to Padang
The Jakarta Post , Jakarta | Thu, 10/22/2009 7:13 PM | National
The Malaysian Husbandry Association said Thursday it would donate 1 million chicken eggs worth RM 300,000 (US$85,000) to quake-devastated West Sumatra.
Malaysian Minister of Agriculture and Industries Noh Omar symbolically gave a basket of eggs to Indonesian Ambassador to Malaysia Da'i Bachtiar in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday.
"We donate 1 million eggs because there are already many donations of clothing, food and drinks, but there are no eggs," Noh Omar said.
Malaysian Husbandry Association chairman Lee Ah Fatt, who was also present at the ceremony, said the egg donation was just the first. If people in West Sumatra needed more, he said, the association would consider sending more.
Lee said Malaysia produced 7.7 billion eggs last year, 11 percent of which were exported.
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