The 4th Meeting of the Joint Coordinating Committee (JCC) for the Project was held virtually on 21st September 2022 as shown in Agenda at “View More”. This JCC meeting was participated by members of USM, MPOB, FRIM, SIRIM and MOHE from the Malaysian side and members of JIRCAS, IHI, Panasonic, Nissin Shoji and the Embassy of Japan, the Consulate-General of Japan in Penang, JST and JICA from the Japanese side.
Installation of multi-channeled chamber system was carried out at Oil Palm Plantation in Pasoh, Negri Sembilan. Evaluation of the biological and physical cycle (nutrient and carbon cycle) in oil palm plantation will be conducted by using this system.
An article featuring our SATREPS OPT Project was published in the JST news July 2022, and now available in English.
The project members traveled from Japan to Malaysia for the first time after the two and a half years of activity restrictions by COVID-19, and conducted research activities by visiting KL, Penang, Kluang and Bintulu. Meeting with Embassy of Japan, JICA Malaysia Office, SIRIM, Bousted Plantation, Consulate-General of Japan in Penang, USM, Texchem, OPTERAZ, Yong Seng Engineering, Sime Darby Research Plantation, BBC Palm Oil Mill and Verdastro, etc.
An article featuring our SATREPS OPT Project was published in the JST news July 2022 (in Japanese).
Ministry of Higher Education’s audit team visited our SATREPS OIL PALM RESEARCH LABORATORY, USM in Penang on 27th June 2022.
Panasonic has released the PALM LOOP website that utilizes the development technology of this SATREPS OPT Project.
The SATREPS Project of JIRCAS was featured on January 11, 2022 in the Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun, a daily Japanese newspaper that specializes in business and industrial affairs.
SATREPS OPT Project Session was held by online in the International ByPalma Conference on 29th Sep 2021.
Now the presentation video and post event report are available.
FRIM (Forest Research Institute Malaysia) member visited to Kluang Pilot Plant for the collection of the OPT sample for their research activity.