Cross River Governor, Senator Bassey Otu, has reaffirmed the state’s commitment to strengthening agricultural collaboration with Malaysia, particularly in the oil palm industry, during a high-level ...

Malaysia’s commodities minister is touting palm oil biomass as a coal alternative, but experts warn that the full lifecycle ...

Palm fruits harvested from deforested areas will be barred from being processed at palm oil mills, says the minister for plantations and commodities. Malaysia has pledged to halt new oil palm ...

Labour issues, along with low productivity from old trees and crop disease, are crimping output growth in the world’s ...

Image courtesy of Low Choon Chyuan. Using the Planet Explorer plugin in QGIS, we mapped deforestation in the project area from 2019 to 2023. We chose 2019 because if any oil palm plantation in ...

SANDAKAN: Malaysia has pledged to halt new oil palm plantations in forest areas to support sustainability and maintain its current forest cover of 54%, says Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani.

the world's largest exporters of palm oil, have previously complained that the law and implementation rules are discriminatory. Malaysia's Deputy Plantation and Commodities Minister Chan Foong Hin ...

Sarawak and Sabah account for some 55% of Malaysia's 5.61 million hectares of palm oil plantations, and were responsible for 43.6 percent of crude palm oil production last year. Ahmad Parveez said ...

Palm oil plantations in two states in Malaysia, the world’s second-biggest producer of the commodity, have been hit by infestations, a minister said, as the country recovers from floods that have ...

About 87% of Malaysia’s palm oil plantations are sustainably certified through the Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) standards, Chan said. “In fact, we are ready,” he said. In December ...

“The team at Graphjet demonstrated the intricate process of sustainably converting palm biomass into carbon and subsequently graphite,” said Malaysia’s Deputy Minister of Plantation and ...