The government will consider cloud seeding operations as an alternative measure to extinguish the fire at a coconut plantation along the Kuantan-Sungai Ular Bypass in Pahang, said Natural Resources and Environmental Sustainability Minister Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad in a press conference on March 6.
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00:00National Resources and Environmental Sustainability Minister Nick Nazmi Nick Ahmad on Thursday
00:08visited a coconut plantation destroyed by a peatland fire in Pahang.
00:12He said the government will consider cloud seeding operations as an alternative measure
00:17to extinguish the fire in the area along the Kuantan-Sungai Ular bypass.
00:23He said the decision will depend on necessity and weather conditions, with consultations
00:28required with the Malaysian Meteorological Department and Fire and Rescue Department.
00:34He said cloud seeding cannot be carried out abruptly, as a thorough assessment is required
00:39to ensure the clouds are suitable for the process.
00:42The peatland fire, now in its 14th day, has destroyed approximately 130 hectares of coconut
00:48plantations and has spread to nearby forested areas since it began on February 22.
00:55Nick Nazmi said the fire suppression efforts in the area currently include the use of helicopter
01:00for waterbombing, firebreaks, flooding the affected areas and direct firefighting.
01:07He said so far, they had extinguished the fire on 43 hectares of the area.