Super strain: Sime Darby is planting its first batch of Genome Select oil palm on 50 hectares of its Dusun Durian plantation on Carey Island, in Banting, Selangor. — YAP CHEE HONG/The Star
CAREY ISLAND: Sime Darby Group’s palm oil yield increase from its new Genome Select plant will be equivalent to output from an additional 50,000 hectares of land – more than 1½ the size of Penang island.
By 2023, the group will have enough material to conduct its entire annual replanting exercise using Genome Select.
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