KUALA LUMPUR: With many measures already in place to ensure greater sustainability for the palm oil sector, more can and must be done, including boosting productivity through the application of new technologies and innovations, says the Sultan of Perak, Sultan Nazrin Muizzuddin Shah.

He said this holds much promise in economic as well as environmental terms, whether from genetic breakthroughs, the discovery of new processing methods or uses, or the achievement of greater efficiency in existing production and distribution processes.

“Although investment in research and development has continued, there have been far fewer breakthroughs in recent years and yields have been more or less stagnant for decades.

“The considerable efforts being put into the development of genetic characteristics to facilitate harvesting, such as slower growth for example, have yet to come to fruition,” he said in his royal address during the ninth International Planters Conference 2019 here yesterday.

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