Published on: Friday, May 28, 2021
By: Bernama
To date, about 26 per cent of Sabah-produced palm oil is RSPO-certified.
Kota Kinabalu: Growing up during the late 1980s, this writer used to visit his grandfather’s small oil palm estate in Batu Pahat, Johor, where his favourite activities were catching ikan puyu or the climbing perch fish and trapping burung wak-wak or white-breasted waterhen.
His grandfather Mohtar Haron, who is now 86, was well aware of the importance of sustainable palm oil production as he used to tell this writer that fauna such as climbing perch and white-breasted waterhen would have disappeared from there if he had used excessive chemical products to take care of his oil palm trees.
Published on: Monday, February 08, 2021
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‘The JCSPO initiative will help the State Government address deforestation in the oil palm supply chain.’ (Pic: Benjamin Drummond)
Kota Kinabalu: As Sabah strives to be a global leader in sustainable palm oil production, the State has embarked on a policy initiative to protect the sector’s resilience as the foundation for Sabah’s economy and sustainable development.
As such, the World Wide Fund for Nature-Malaysia (WWF-Malaysia) said both the Jurisdictional Certification of Sustainable Palm Oil (JCSPO) and the Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) certification had been implemented concurrently within Sabah.
Its Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer Sophia Lim said the JCSPO initiative will help the State Government address deforestation in the oil palm supply chain by putting in place strategies, policies and measures to safeguard them.
KOTA KINABALU: Sabah has set up an initiative to ensure the palm oil sector remains the state s key economic driver while also working towards conservation and sustainability.
The initiative will be implemented through the Jurisdictional Certification of Sustainable Palm Oil (JCSPO) and Malaysian Sustainable Palm Oil (MSPO) certification in Sabah.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) Malaysia CEO Sophia Lim said the adoption of the JCSPO initiative would help the state government address deforestation in the palm oil supply chain by putting in place strategies, policies and measures to safeguard the environment. This is a crucial step in positioning Sabah and laying the foundation for the state as the global leader in sustainable palm oil, said Lim, who is also WWF Malaysia executive director.