In 1917, French entrepreneur Henri Fauconnier planted the first commercial oil palm crop in Malaysia. Fauconnier couldn’t have known it then, but his fledgling efforts have now burgeoned into one of the country’s most prolific produce.
Palm oil is Malaysia’s fourth-biggest economic resource and provides a livelihood for over one million Malaysians.
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