Oil palm transitioning to precision agriculture
Oil palm transitioning to precision agriculture[1], will it lower tensions with the European Union?
Michel A. Gilmour
A first generation entrepreneur, Michel is at heart a talent and technology scout.
He spent 12 years each in the chemical and oil palm industries, with 30 years in executive search in between.
Born in Africa, after studying business in France and the UK, Michel started his career with France's largest chemical company, first in India, then as GM Indonesia. He moved on to 30 years of headhunting in Europe, America & Asia.
He ventured into Oil Palm in Sabah in 2009 by investing first in Sandakan in a first precision agriculture solution. COVID led to the setting up of the PalmINNOV study group.
PalmINNOV is today delivering the first fully operational Precision Agriculture harvesting system.
Along the way, he volunteered with PONGO Alliance, an alliance of oil palm growers & NGOs to improve wildlife conservation in/around plantations.
French and British, Michel's multicultural family lives in Europe, Malaysia, Indonesia and Polynesia.
His Malaysian wife Soraya set up several schools for Rohingya children in Johor 12 years ago. She is currently the UNHCR[2] representative for the southern peninsula of Malaysia.
More Info
Precision agriculture (PA) is a farming management strategy based on observing, measuring and responding to temporal and spatial variability to improve agricultural production sustainability. [Wikipedia page] ↩︎
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a United Nations agency mandated to aid and protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities, and stateless people, and to assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country. It is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, with over 18,879 staff working in 138 countries. [Wikipedia page] ↩︎
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The Sabah Society
No. 46, Lot 34, 1st Floor, Damai Plaza Phase 4, Luyang, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia.