Over the last three decades, the Malaysian palm oil industry has grown to become a very important agriculture-based industry. Currently, there are more than 2.6 million hectares under oil palm and 290 palm oil mills to produce crude palm oil and palm kernel for further processing by refineries, palm kernel crushers and oleochemical companies. In […]

With the advent of the Internet resulting in an information overload amongst the researchers and knowledge workers of PORIM, there is an increasing need by the Palm Information Centre of the Institute to enhance its database service PALMOILIS launched in 1993 to be more user-friendly, more interactive by allowing users to interact online, more responsive […]