'increase research on biodiesel'
Published on: Tuesday, September 27, 2016
Kuala Lumpur: Plantation companies should prop up their research efforts to promote palm oil as the main option for biodiesel, said an economist.Professor Dr Jomo Kwame Sundaram said the country was in dearth of research efforts to promote palm oil in biodiesel production and it was a big challenge for Malaysian companies to be technological leaders in the field. "The big challenge now is where we go next...and there is a huge opportunity coming from the need for renewable fields and palm oil is the cheapest vegetable oil.
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"It has the greatest potential to be the most successful (ingredient in) biodiesel. If it stays behind, another research which promotes another oil as the basis of biodiesel, then we will lose the opportunity," said Jomo. "We have one company that is so dominant in palm oil, which is Sime Darby. But even then, I do not see a huge effort in this direction. I'm hoping that there would be breakthrough in the public sector," he added. Stay up-to-date by following Daily Express’s Telegram channel.
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