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Dear Sir,

We would like to refer to the on going discussion on the palm oil industry and global warming. The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) conference in Copenhagen at the end of this year will discuss on the efforts to reduce the GHG emission and it will inevitably affect the future of the Malaysian palm oil industry.

The developed countries are very keen to shift part of the carbon reduction target to the developing countries. There is even a proposal to put Malaysia in the Annex I Countries (with GHG reduction target) alongside with other developing economies like China, India, and Brazil. We hope that this will not happen but, even under this premise, the IPCC will have adverse implications on the Malaysian palm oil industry in one way or another.

Dear Sir,

I would like to refer to The Star (9/6/09) article that the RSPO certified palm oil is not getting the premium price. The manufacturers /consumers in the West want palm oil to be sustainable but not willing to pay for it. MPOA is the founding member of the RSPO while  RSPO Secretariat is in Kuala Lumpur and what are they going to about this.  When it was still not available in the market , the NGOs are very vocal campaigning  to the consumers in Europe to demand for sustainable palm oil. Now that sustainable palm oil is available in the market and there is  no buyer but  the  NGOs are just keeping quite. They are very aggressive towards the palm oil producers in the under developed countries like Malaysia and Indonesia but when the consumers in the West are not taking the sustainable palm oil, they dare not do anything – no demonstration by wearing the orangutan mask, no climbing of buildings, no chaining themselves to the ships and no brochures with the pictures of the products that are not using sustainable palm oil !! It is left to the free market   forces of supply and demand. If that is the case, it is easy . If there is no demand, there is no supply of the sustainable palm oil.  

Mubarak Hussin

Dear Sir,

I would like to refer to the headline news in the Star (8/6/09) on “Secret Depots Siphoning off Billion$ in CPO”. This palm oil theft story reflected the failure of MPOB as an enforcement agency. The fact that all the areas of the siphoning operations were identified by the newspaper indicated that it was given by MPOB. The comments by MPOB that it will affect the quality palm oil helps to project the negative image of Malaysian palm oil quality.   We hope that MPOA should urge MPOB to do something about this rather than highlighting it in newspapers.

Mubarak Hussin

Dear Sir,

I read your posting under News & Events on the Notes on the MPOA's Dialogue with the Minister YB Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui on 7^th April, 2009. It seems that many of the issues were brought forward from the previous years. Unfortunately, the Minister for Plantation Industries and Commodities was changed on the next day. I hope that MPOA will arrange to meet the new Minister, YB Tan Sri Bernard Dompok as soon as possible to brief him of those issues so that he can look into those matters immediately. If not, many of those issues will have to be brought forward again next year.

Palm Trader