Jomo: Pay attention to criticisms on palm oil industry | Malay Mail

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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 8 — The oil palm plantation industry should pay attention to criticisms levelled against it, including serious allegations about land grabbing, environmental destruction and labour abuse, said economist Professor Jomo Kwame Sundaram. Economist and former...

A worker unloads palm oil fruit bunches from a lorry inside a palm oil mill in Bahau January 30, 2019. — Reuters pic

Economist and former Council of Eminent Person member said the government, its agencies and industry players need to focus on the challenges facing the industry. “We cannot just put our head under the sand and pretend these are not criticisms. Most are negative propaganda, but insofar some have some truth and we have to do something about it,” he stressed.

The senior research advisor of Khazanah Research Institute also said that there is a big revolution in the palm oil-producing country like Indonesia, which has developed dwarf trees, that could produce higher yield even when standing at about one foot high.

 

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