Hot palm oil industry in Malaysia
Industry news / Chat on line / Give me a price / Date: September 19, 2014
Palm oil industry in Malaysia
The Oil Palm Industry in Malaysia is grouped into clusters covering :
1) Upstream producers,
2) Downstream producers,
3) Exporters and importers,
4) Buyers,
5) Government agencies
6) NGOs.
38 million hectares of palm oil in Malaysia in 2000 as following :
1) 60% are private ownership, particularly by plantation companies
2) 30.5% are Government land schemes
3) 9.5% are individual smallholders.
Palm oil produced in Malaysia
Felda accounts for 17.7% of the total planted area and 20.6% of the palm oil produced in Malaysia in 2001.Plantation companies vary in size from a few hundred hectares to more than 100,000 hectares.
The 4 largest companies palm oil company in Malaysia in terms of planted area are :
1) Kumpulan Guthrie Berhad
2) Golden Hope Plantations Berhad
3) IOI Corporation Berhad
4) Sime Darby Berhad
