KUCHING: The Tropical Peat Research Unit in the Sarawak Chief Minister’s Department has set up three Eddy Coveriance towers to carry out an advanced carbon flux study to reinforce its early breakthrough in scientific findings that carbon dioxide (CO2) emission from oil palm plantations on peatland is lower than that of forest peat swamp.
Director Dr Lulie Melling said the three 40m-tall towers put up in oil palm estates in Sibu, Betong and Maludam National Park would be fully operational in two weeks’ time.
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