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Act Fast to Quash Smears against Palm Oil Industry
AS the Malaysian economy faces challenges from COVID-19, the country's palm oil exports to the US come under a new threat through...
Dec 9, 20205 min read
Ensuring Higher Income through Oil Palm Innovations
The Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) has showcased hundreds of breakthrough innovations in both the upstream and downstream sectors that...
Dec 9, 20203 min read
Innovation Is the Way to Fight EU Palm Oil Ban
In 2016, I went back to my home country, Italy, for a longer period than usual. Forced to watch Italian TV again, I was quite stricken by...
Oct 23, 20203 min read
Precision Farming Is the Future
We are familiar with rice, oil palm, rubber and durian. Rubber is grown for rubber latex, which finds wide use in thousands of products...
Oct 23, 20203 min read
Oil Palm Industry – Not Understood and Utilised to Potential
Consequence to COVID-19, Sri Lanka is now compelled to ban imports, restrict imports or increase import taxes to manage its valuable...
Sep 23, 202012 min read
About Sustainability, Regulation and Consumer Demand
Even as Malaysia and Indonesia work towards combating misperceptions behind anti-palm oil products from grocery store shelves, anti-palm...
Sep 15, 20203 min read
There's No Palm Oil Alternative
I read a few news reports in a couple of international media recently about a start-up based in New York that is ready to go big in...
Sep 14, 20203 min read
Affirming A Cause; Pandemic or Not
Multiple phases of the Movement Control Order (MCO) have passed and Malaysia is finally and slowly easing back into life. Many sectors...
Sep 1, 20204 min read
Rise in RSPO Trademarks Bolstered by Consumers Opting for “Brands of Purpose”
Since the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Trademark was launched in 2011, it has grown exponentially from 12 countries to 60...
Jun 18, 20203 min read
An Interview with the Chair of Premium Group of Companies, Mr. Satish Selvanathan
1. Premium Group is an established player and pioneer in the specialty fats industry in 35 years. Could you share the background of this...
Apr 16, 202011 min read
An Interview with Mr. Heon Chee Shyong, the CEO of Aluminium Company of Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. (ALCOM).
Heon Chee Shyong was appointed to the Board of AGB as President cum Chief Executive Officer on 9 August 2018. He graduated with a...
Feb 11, 20204 min read
‘A Planter Extraordinaire’
IOI Group founder Tan Sri Lee Shin Cheng rose from humble beginnings to become a planter extraordinaire, says palm oil industry expert...
Oct 7, 20193 min read
4 Main Components That Will Change the Palm Oil Industry in The Future: A 4th Industrial Revolution
Technology is changing all the major industries with an unprecedented pace. The question will always be: is it for good or ill? I prefer...
Oct 4, 201911 min read
4 Main Components that will Change the Palm Oil Industry in the Future: A 4th Industrial Revolution
Technology is changing all the major industries with an unprecedented pace. The question will be always: is it for good or ill? I prefer...
Oct 3, 201911 min read
Fixing The Economy - Feedback/Commentary: Policies Should Not Be Arrived At In A Vacuum
We applaud and thank the Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) for its efforts to engage with plantation industry representatives. We...
Oct 3, 20194 min read
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