Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) / Caroline Dennis

• Main Author: Dennis, Caroline
• Format: Monograph
• Language: English
• Published: University Technology MARA Sarawak 2015
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General); Study and teaching. Research
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/101265/1/101265.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/101265/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Mara

MPOB is the premier government agency entrusted to served the country’s oil palm industry. Its main role is to promote and develop national objectives, policies and priorities for the wellbeing of the Malaysian Oil Palm industry. It was incorporated by an Act of parliament (Act 582) and established on 1 May 2000, taking over, through a merger, the functions of the Palm Oil Research Institute of Malaysia (PORIM) and the Palm Oil Registration and Licensing Authority (PORLA). Each of these respective organizations has been involved in the oil palm industry for more than 20 years and it is to render more effective services as well as to give greater national and international focus to the industry that MPOB was instituted.