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Latest updates, insights and developments across the palm oil industry.


Boron a Major Key for Fertilizers in the Palm Oil Industry
Regional Sales Manager’s Background Weng Kee is a seasoned agri-business professional currently handling commercial and technical...
Jul 27, 2021


Mechanisation and Automation Vital For Smooth Operation of Nation's Oil Palm Plantations
Technology and innovation are crucial to ensure the competitiveness of the nation's oil palm industry in the global market. Hence, the...
Jul 23, 2021


Q&A: Ensuring Sustainable Palm Oil Production amid a Pandemic
When it comes to making the palm oil industry more sustainable, the plantations themselves can’t do it alone. Agus Purnomo, managing...
Jul 23, 2021


Accurate Narrative around Palm Oil Vital
The narrative that oil palm acreages are expanding at the expense of climate and biodiversity is flawed, and a comprehensive census of...
Jul 23, 2021


Advancing Palm Oil Industry
The development of the palm oil industry has contributed significantly to the increasing export of the commodity and the well-being of...
Jul 23, 2021


FGV Inks RM175mil Deal to Buy MSM Perlis from 51 Per Cent-Owned MSM
FGV Holdings Bhd, via subsidiary FGV Integrated Farming Holdings Sdn Bhd, has inked a share sales agreement with MSM Malaysia Holdings...
Jul 23, 2021


Techbond's New Upstream Polymerization Plant in Vietnam Commenced Operation
Techbond Group Bhd's (TGB) new upstream polymerization plant in Vietnam has commenced production of base material, polyvinyl acetate...
Jul 23, 2021


Implementation of B20 Biodiesel Mandate in Sabah, Peninsular Malaysia Delayed Again
The execution of the B20 biodiesel programmer in Sabah and Peninsular Malaysia has been postponed, to a date to be decided upon later....
Jul 23, 2021


MPIC Names MPOB, MRB Chairman
Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry (MPIC) has named Mad Zaidi Mohd Karli, the ministry’s deputy sec-gen for plantations and...
Jul 23, 2021
Palm Oil Output at Risk as Lockdown Worsens Labor Shortage
The shortage of oil palm harvesters, which was around 40,000 before the pandemic hit, has probably doubled by now, says a growers’ group....
Jul 23, 2021


PM Urges Egypt to Increase Palm Oil Imports from Malaysia
Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has called on Egypt - the largest Malaysian palm oil importer in Africa - to increase future palm...
Jul 23, 2021


Sabah Makes Strides towards Sustainable Palm Oil Production
Growing up during the late 1980s, this writer used to visit his grandfather’s small oil palm estate in Batu Pahat, Johor, where his...
Jul 23, 2021
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