KUCHING: Sarawak needs to set up more palm oil refineries to boost capacity as the uptake of crude palm oil (CPO) from mills would be sharply reduced once the Wilmar International Ltd-owned refinery in Bintulu stops buying CPO produced from oil palm estates on peat swamp land and forest areas from 2015 onwards.
Sarawak Oil Palm Planter Owners Association (Soppoa) secretary Philip Ho urged the big players having the financial muscle to invest in more such refineries.
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