China is one of the top three destinations besides Canada and Mexico for exports of agricultural and related products from the United States of America (US). In 2017, China imported USD 12.3 billion worth of soyabean from US. Purchases of US soyabean by China typically peak in October and November. Over the last five years, […]

Physical refining of crude palm oil includes three major stages: degumming, bleaching and deodourisation. Bleaching earth is used for the removal of undesirable components such as phospholipids, colorants and traces of heavy metals contained in crude oil (Sabah et al., 2007). Regeneration of spent bleaching earth can be achieved by heat treatment (Mahramanlioglu et al., […]

Oil palm empty fruit bunches (EFB) contain about 70%-80% holocellulose, which comprises about 40%-45% and 30%-35% of cellulose and hemicellulose, respectively, as well as 18%-22% lignin (Basiron and Husin, 1996). These lignocellulosics can be utilised for the production of fibrereinforced biocomposites (Mariko et al., 2016) and fine chemicals such as glucose and xylose (Siew et […]

The Malaysian palm oil industry has experienced significant growth since the first introduction of oil palm from West Africa in the late 1870s. In 2016, crude palm oil (CPO) production was recorded at 17.32 million tonnes (MPOB, 2016). Malaysia is currently one of the leading producers and exporters of palm oil (PO) and palm oil […]

Vitamin E was discovered in the 1920s and has exhibited various health protective effects (Aggarwal et al., 2010, Fu et al., 2014). It consists of tocopherols (TP) and tocotrienols (T3) with tocotrienols being different from their counterpart due to the presence of an unsaturated side chain. Compared to other natural sources such as soyabean, corn […]

The Malaysian oil palm industry generates huge amounts of by-products annually. Most of these by-products have great potential to be utilised as components in compound feeds. However, some of these by-products need further processing before they can be used effectively in livestock rations (Mohamed et al., 2012).

Malaysia is the second largest producer and exporter of palm oil (PO) and palm kernel oil (PKO) in the world. As one of the major players in PO and PKO trade, it is imperative for Malaysia to ensure that the quality of both oils exported meet the standard requirements established by national authorities and trade […]