The Malaysian palm oil industry, together with the Sabah Wildlife Department, is organizing its second orang utan seminar in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah early next week under a broader title of “Sabah Wildlife Conservation Colloquium 2012″. NGOs are expected to send their representatives to attend the event. Some like Nature Alert are already lobbying to...
The Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) annual meeting is currently taking place in Sabah. As anticipated, the Western NGOs are going on the offensive to mount their 'attacks' on the oil palm industry. As expected, they have tried to insinuate and belittle the industry’s effort to promote the good name of...
For many years, the aviation industry has been criticized for its high carbon GHG emission. Of the total global emissions, 56 % comes from burning of fossil fuels and 17 % from agriculture. The aviation industry alone contributes 649,000,000 tonnes of GHG emission annually which represents 2 to 3 % of the total globally! The...
Western NGOs have been using the Victoria Zoos network to mount anti palm oil campaigns in Australia by making allegations linking palm oil production to deforestation and orang utan habitat destruction. Heightened publicity is needed in these campaigns and signatures of sympathizers have been carefully obtained to show public support.
If palm oil has to be labelled for all food products marketed in Australia, it is likely to disrupt trade. Imports of food products will be affected as the palm oil content of food manufactured overseas is not labelled specifically as required by the proposed bill. Local manufacturers will need to have new and specific...
Recently, the Malaysian and Indonesian Ministers in charge of the palm oil industry had a roundtable dialogue with US NGOs, government officials and other food and non-food customers to discuss palm oil sustainability issues.
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{ got something better to read on PO from your presentation..... was looking for one!! Great work!! } – Dec 14, 4:24 AM
{ Malaysia and Indonesia. Stop exporting palm Oil to Europe for 3 months for a start. Then see what will happen. They will be on their... } – Dec 08, 2:51 AM
{ Hi, My 2 cent is that the stupid A want our palm oil to be cheaper so that they can purchase it in large quantity... } – Sep 15, 1:53 AM
{ “Palm oil, the leading edible oil globally in respect of production, trade and consumption, is a target of vested corners since long, terming it as... } – Sep 11, 4:22 AM