INTRODUCTION

Datuk Dr Sundram’s paper ”Global Supply & Demand Dynamics and Price Outlook of CPO” presents an outlook on the supply/demand/drivers of oils and fats, focusing on palm oil, in major producing and consuming countries. Its highlight is its price projection/forecast for palm oil into the first quarter of 2020. The readers will be able to gauge factors that have and may in the near future influence the decision-making process of either the consumer, manufacturers, sellers, and buyers oils and fats, and in particular for palm oil