INTERVIEW | Teresa Kok is prepared to face ridicule if it means she does a good job at promoting the palm oil industry.

The DAP deputy secretary-general was sworn-in as the primary industries minister in July 2018 and as a city-bred politician has been mocked in the course of learning on the job.

She took the job on just as Putrajaya had to combat the European Union's (EU) effort to ban the use of palm oil-based biofuels, which would worsen climbing stockpiles and overproduction of palm oil.

The continuous plunging of the palm oil price impacted 650,000 smallholders and affect the livelihoods of three million people who were depending on the palm oil-related industry.