BETONG, Thailand, June 15 — Malaysia and Southern Thailand can work together to promote products from rural areas through the “One Tambun One Product (OTOP)” and “One District One Industry” (SDSI) programmes.

Yala governor Dejrath Simsiri said since OTOP products were produced by Muslims in Southern Thailand, they were “halal”.

He said SDSI products were suitable to be marketed in Southern Thailand because the Muslim community there chose “halal” food.

The relationship between Thailand and entrepreneurs under the SDSI could be enhanced with the support of the Federal Government, said Dejrath when opening a Malaysia-Thailand OTOP exhibition in Betong, Southern Thailand, here today.

Twenty entrepreneurs from the northern SDSI zone — Kedah, Perlis, Penang and Hulu Perak — and entrepreneurs under the OTOP from Southern Thailand exhibited their products. — Bernama