Environment & Sustainability
All About Palm – Knowledge Sharing Session With Multimedia University, Cyberjaya 2019
Author: Michael Ng, Assistant Manager, Science and Environment Division A seminar was recently organised by the Multimedia University’s Faculty of Creative Multimedia on 17 July 2019 for MPOC to engage its students on the various aspects of Malaysian palm oil. This was facilitated through MMU’s Know...
International Palm Oil Sustainability Conference (IPOSC 2018) Report
The 5th International Palm Oil Sustainability Conference (IPOSC 2018) was recently held from 19-20 September 2018 at the Shangri-la’s Tanjung Aru Resort & Spa, Kota Kinabalu. It was officiated by YB Puan Teresa Kok, Minister of Primary Industries, Malaysia and drew a crowd of almost 300 particip...
About Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil
The Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) Certification Scheme is the national scheme in Malaysia for oil palm plantations, independent and organised smallholdings, and palm oil processing facilities to be certified against the requirements of the MSPO Standards.
Malaysian Peat Soils are Different from Temperate Peat Soils and Have Lower Co2 Emissions
Peat soils in their natural state are wet with very high water table near to the soil surface. They are also soft as they are organic (made up of mainly rotting plant materials) in nature. Thus, peat soils are also known as organic soils. Since peat soils are organic in nature, the bulk densit...
The implications of EU Resolution to the Malaysian Palm Oil Industry
During the past six months or so, we have heard a lot about the EU Resolution and its proposal to ban palm oil into Europe. Almost every where we go, people are talking about palm oil and the proposed EU ban; from the commoner to businessmen and politicans. In many of our local programmes, people [&...
The Imbalanced Argument on Palm Oil Continues…
It's been a century since oil palm was commercially cultivated in Malaysia and providing a major source of edible oil for more than 3 billion people worldwide. Even after so many years of contribution towards global food security, palm oil continues to be demonized by much misinformation. The r...
