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17/05/2017 (The Star) - He calls the oil palm trees his “girlfriends”, bought over the company that had earlier rejected his job application and knows the plantation business inside out.

18/05/2017 (The Star) - IOI Corporation Bhd has emerged as one of the most fully-integrated plantation companies in the world.

18/05/2017 (The Star) - As Malaysia steps into the second century of commercial oil palm planting, Sime Darby Plantation Sdn Bhd. Managing Director Datuk Franki Anthony Dass reiterated that the challenges facing the industry will only continue to intensify.

8/05/2017 (The Star) - A look at Felda’s phenomenal growth from village champion to economic powerhouse.

18/05/2017 (The Star) - Among the pioneering plantation companies in Malaysia, Sime Darby Bhd still remains at the forefront of developments in the industry, particularly in research and development (R&D), sustainability and agro-management practices.

18/05/2017 (The Star) - THE palm oil industry was a cornerstone in reducing the poverty rate in Malaysia from 50% in the 1960s, down to less than 5% today.

18/05/2017 (Tempo.co) - President Joko Widodo alias Jokowi and his Lithuanian counterpart Dalia Grybauskaite today discussed the export ban on crude palm oil.

18/05/2017 (Awareness Times) - The Project Manager for the Smallholders Commercialization Programme, Peter Kaindaneh has during an inspection exercise on the nursery site at Njala University Agriculture Unit said that over five hundred thousand oil Palm seed lets would directly benefits three thousand farmers across the project’s nine operational districts across Sierra Leone.

18/05/201 (India.com) - Crude palm oil prices rose further by 0.61 per cent to Rs 512.60 per 10 kg in futures market today as speculators built up positions amid firm trend at the spot market on rising demand.

18/05/2017 (Tempo.co) - The Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said that China has responded positively to Indonesia’s investment proposals discussed at the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) summit.

18/05/2017 (The Star) - The Malaysian Palm Oil Council has played a key role in promoting the palm oil industry in Malaysia.

18/05/2017 (The Star) - The Fourth Industrial Revolution is set to transform the palm oil industry.