ECO STATS

# In 2006, Malaysia produced 15.9 million tonnes of palm oil, only 1.4 m tonnes are locally consumed.

# Sarawak's total export earnings in 2006 from timber and timber- based products was RM 9 billion ( a 25 % increase from 2005) about half of the products were plywood( worth about RM 2.5 billion ) or 3.5 million cubic meters in volume.

# Sarawak's Biodiversity Centre has in 2007 documented 1,500 species of medicinal plants based on indigenous knowledge, normally transmitted by oral tradition.

# Sime Darby group, formed by a merger of Sime Darby Berhad, Kumpulan Guthrie and Golden Hope Plantations in 2007 attained status as the world's leading palm oil plantation group with 543,000 hectares in land bank.