By the end of 2024, in accordance with the new European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), if producers cannot provide details, including GPS coordinates, about the exact locations where their oil palm trees were grown — proving it didn’t result in deforestation since 2020 — they cannot export the palm oil from the trees in the EU.
Palm oil processing mills in Malaysia will refuse to purchase the palm oil fruit because they will lose the EU market if they do.
Forty percent of palm oil production in Malaysia, the world’s #2 palm oil producer, comes from smallholding oil palm farmers.
Wild Asia, a Malaysia-based sustainability management organization that provides technical advice, training, and certification, is helping smallholding farmers meet the standards so that their produce can be exported in the EU.
