FUNCTIONS OF MPOB ACCORDING TO SECTION 4, MALAYSIAN PALM OIL BOARD ACT 1998(582)
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To implement policies and developmental programmes ensure the viability of the oil palm industry of Malaysia ;
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To conduct and promote research and development activities relating to the planting, production, harvesting, extraction, processing, storage, transportation, use, consumption and marketing of oil palm and oil palm products;
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To plan, co-ordinate, implement and monitor all research and development activities on oil palm and oil palm products;
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To regulate, register, co-ordinate and promote all activities relating to the planting, supply, sale, purchase, distribution, movement, storage, surveying, testing, inspecting, brokering, export and import of oil palm products, and the milling of oil palm fruit;
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To develop and commercialise research findings for the benefit of the oil palm industry and to promote the use of the research findings commercially;
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To provide technical, advisory and consultancy services to the oil palm industry
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To promote the efficient marketing and handling of oil palm products;
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To develop and maintain markets for oil palm products;
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To promote, control and monitor measures towards attaining a high quality for oil palm products;
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To plan and implement training programmes and human resource development in line with the needs of the oil palm industry;
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To liaise and co-ordinate with other bodies within or outside Malaysia to further enhance the oil palm industry of Malaysia;
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To conduct research and development on oil seeds and other oils and fats other than palm oil where such research and development are for the enhancement of the oil palm industry;
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To gather information and maintain records of all relevant matters relating to the oil palm industry;
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To be the resource and information centre of the oil palm industry;
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To publish or sponsor the publication of journals, periodicals, booklets and other publications and to collect, collate and disseminate information relating to oil palm, oil palm products and other vegetable and animal oils and fats;
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To conduct research and development in any other area where the results of the research and development are intended to benefit the oil palm industry; and
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To do such other things as it deems fit to enable it to perform its functions effectively or which are incidental to the performance of its functions.
