InfoSAWIT, BANDUNG – Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (PFMA) emphasized its commitment to palm oil industries by fully delivering supports to develop downstream sectors. It was decided in the last meeting of PFMA that would support everything which is the same to sustainable palm oil corridor.

In his speech, Head of Company Division PFMA, Achmad Maulizal said palm oil downstream sector development should be the same with the concrete thing to get solution about negative issues that always happen. PFMA is committed to supervise the future palm oil industries and would make them as the sectors that implement sustainable principles.

“The support would be not only in downstream development but also would involve serious action to get solution on negative issues that always happen in palm oil industries,” Achmad said in Workshop Jurnalis Industri Hilir Sawit that InfoSAWIT attended, Thursday (1/2/2024) in Bandung.

The concrete things to support downstream sectors would cover the supports in research, close monitoring to sustainable principles, involvement in confirming that the industries contribute to sustainable development.

Sustainable palm oil industries should not be seen as responsibility only but also as the opportunity to escalate palm oil images in the society. By always promoting sustainable practices, Maulizal said, PFMA hoped to establish palm oil industries as the pioneer to implement environmental and social principles responsibly. (T2)