Sparser plantations on satellite images. Zachlod and the wider research team chose to analyze the productivity of palm oil plantations in Malaysia using satellite images from the European Space ...

“Malaysia’s land surface area was once almost covered with forest,” the WWF said in its forestry report, which cited enduring threats such as palm oil cultivation and unsustainable logging.

Plantations and commodities minister Johari Ghani says ‘we have enough oil palm plantations. We want to maintain our forest cover at 54% to enhance biodiversity’.

They note the impact will be felt keenly in Indonesia, the world’s top palm oil producer, where small farmers manage 6.72 million hectares (16.6 million acres) of plantations, or 41% of the ...

Dabeeo signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Saba Legend, a Malaysian palm oil plantation company, for the purpose of monitoring the health status of palm trees on plantations using AI ...

IOI is Malaysia’s second-biggest palm oil planter with 96 estates located across northern Sabah and in Peninsular Malaysia. The company now has an adequate number of workers on the plantations ...

Indonesia and Malaysia, the world’s top palm oil producers that collectively account for about 85% of global output, have pledged to work together to counter “anti-palm oil campaigns ...

SANDAKAN: Malaysia has pledged to halt new oil palm plantations in forest areas to support sustainability and maintain its current forest cover of 54%, says Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani.

Such statements sit uneasily for some, especially when palm oil is seen as a key driver of deforestation. Indonesia and Malaysia together account for 85 percent of the world’s palm oil exports ...