The Star Roundtable on Palm Oil: More than meets the eye

Common interest: At the fifth annual The Star Roundtable on Palm Oil 2015, (from left) Boustead Plantations COO Chow Kok Choy, NASH president Datuk Aliasak Ambia, MPOC CEO Tan Sri Dr Yusof Basiron, The Star’s executive editor Errol Oh, United Plantations vice chairman and chief executive director Datuk Carl Bek-Nielsen, and United Malacca CEO Peter Benjamin. — AZHAR MAHFOF / The Star

Oil palm concessions unfairly singled out as the cause of the haze but the main factors are pulpwood plantations, wildfire from slash-and-burn land clearing, and smouldering peatlands.

At The Star Roundtable on Palm Oil 2015 held at Menara Star in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, recently, The Star’s executive editor Errol Oh led the forum joined by Malaysian Palm Oil Council (MPOC) chief executive officer Tan Sri Dr Yusof Basiron, United Plantations Bhd vice chairman and chief executive director Datuk Carl Bek-Nielsen, Boustead Plantations Bhd chief operating officer Chow Kok Choy, United Malacca Bhd chief executive officer Peter Benjamin and National Association of Smallholders (NASH) president Datuk Aliasak Ambia.