Townships issue cooperative handbooks for palm oil purchases

Some townships in Yangon Region have started giving cooperative handbooks in which all transactions of palm oil will be recorded.
“The ward administrator’s office announced this over loudspeaker last night. Household registration is needed to be presented when buying palm oil with a handbook,” Daw Thu Zar from Ward 14 of South Okkalapa Township told The Global New Light of Myanmar (GNLM).
This cooperative handbook will allow residents to buy palm oil as per the set reference price starting in September.
Books are handed over to every household in some townships without asking for the household registration or citizenship scrutiny card, while administrators of some townships issue books after collecting lists, census and visitor registrations.
Those books are not allowed to be resold or used as a mortgage. Each household is entitled to hold one book. Palm oil can be purchased on the specified dates. Individuals need to report a lost book to the respective ward administrator. Those below ten years old are not eligible to buy them. — TWA/KK