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Malaysia boasts an estimated total of 5.67 mln hectares of oil palm plantations, yielding over 90 mln tonnes of dried palm biomass annually.

Among issues to be raised in Cabinet paper are Pestalotiopsis leaf fall disease, lack of manpower and areas not being tapped nationwide.

The research found more than half of Beed women who had gone to work on sugar plantations had undergone surgery to remove their uteruses.

More than 4 mln hectares of forest have been lost to rubber plantations since 1993, with two thirds of in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia.

LTAT wishes to announce that the Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA), signed on 24 August 2023 has been mutually terminated by the parties, effective today.

Temporary thatched houses could be completely destroyed while standing crops, plantations and roads were expected to face major damage.

Some farmers had "suddenly bought a new car" after selling part of their palm or rubber plantations, Rizki Maulana said.

164 workers from the island of Lombok in Indonesia were expected to arrive in Kuala Lumpur yesterday evening on a chartered flight.

Malaysian grower Top Fruits Plantations is using high-tech methods to boost its crop of pungent durians.

The Cabinet agreed that co-operatives involved in the plantation sector will be given the opportunity to recruit foreign workers, effective immediately.

The implementation of the new moratorium on the establishment of new forest plantations will not have any impact on the supply of raw materials sourced locally for the wood processing industry.

The government had discussed the issue with several companies involved in recruiting foreign workers, including plantations.

Top officials have said new permit applications will be rejected but experts warned of a lack of legal clarity.

Lava has covered almost 900 hectares of land, destroying over 2,000 buildings and many banana plantations.

Zuraida said there was shortage of workers and this affect the harvest, especially in oil palm plantations.

Donald Trump says he would impose the tariffs until China stops the flow of illegal drugs, particularly fentanyl, into the United States.

Topping the demands of Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party is the release of all its leaders, including Khan, who has been jailed on a series of corruption charges since August 2023.

The report highlights that "60 per cent of all female homicides" are committed by "people closely related to them".

Two subsea cables, one linking Finland and Germany and the other connecting Sweden to Lithuania, were damaged in less than 24 hours.

It is clear that adding more lanes and highways doesn't work, because we are still attempting the same approach to solve the issue.

This investment includes efforts to upgrade INOKOM's existing assembly capacity to meet Hyundai's automotive needs.

'C4Cinta', directed by young filmmaker Karthik Shamalan, has set a new benchmark in Malaysian Tamil cinema.

The court denied bail and scheduled case mention on Feb 7 for the submission of forensic, autopsy, and chemist reports.

The classroom assessment approach offers a much more interesting learning ecosystem, says Fadhlina Sidek.

Google and Meta says the government should wait for the results of an age-verification trial before going ahead.