Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB)
The palm oil industry has been a significant driver to the Malaysian economic development and has established itself in the international oils and fats business. Export earnings from oil palm products reached RM 59.77 billion in 2010, an increase of 20.4% from RM 49.66 billion recorded in the previous year.
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The palm oil industry has been a significant driver in the economic development of Malaysia and has established itself in the international oil and fats business. The Malaysian palm oil industry has gained strength each year to promote its growth to a new level. In 2008, the industry recorded export earnings of oil palm products […]
The palm oil industry has been a significant driver of the Malaysian economy. Accentuated by high crude palm oil (CPO) price, growth in export earnings had strengthened to a new record high at RM 65.2 billion in 2008 from RM 45.1 billion in the previous year. But from the supply side, the national average fresh […]
Total production of palm oil by Malaysia in the first 10 months of 2004 was 11.402 million tonnes which was an increase of 234 582 t, or 2.1%, over the production of the same period of the previous year (Table 1). When traced on a monthly basis, production in the first two months of 2004 […]
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There has been a small increase of 4.65% in the production of palm oil by Malaysia in 2004 where from 13.355 million tonnes in 2003 it reached 13.976 million tonnes in 2004 (Table 1). When compared to the period of 2003 over 2002, the increase was 12.14%, indicating that the palms are beginning the downturn […]
Malaysian palm oil production increased from 11.355 million tonnes in 2003 to 13.976 million tonnes in 2004, i.e. by 4.65% (Table 1). This was a small increase compared to that of 2002 of 12.14% due to the palms being stressed after four years of high production. The lower increase in production was also due to […]
From 1990 to 2000, production of palm oil by Malaysia had been increasing yearly and this trend continued into the new millennium. Malaysia’s palm oil production increased from 11 804 million tonnes in 2001 to 11 909 million tonnes in 2002, i.e. by about 0.89% (Table 1). This is a small increase when compared to […]
Malaysian production of palm oil in the year 2003 continued to be on the up trend when it reached 13.35 million tonnes from 11.9 million tonnes in 2002, an increase of 1.4 million tonnes, or 12.14% (Table 1). Monthly movements in production for 2003 showed that production for the first two months of 2003 was […]