油棕种子和幼苗的出入口禁令

如果没有错，马来西亚是禁止出口和入口油棕种子和树苗的，历时有多久不知道。

根据这篇叙述，应该可以想像，约莫是1960-1970以前实施的。

其中一段的内容是说，如果你把种子从国家输出，必须用在自己的园丘。
这也可以解释，为什么TSH和Asiatic不把实验室搬到印尼去？
他们的大片空地需要用到许多的种子，都可以从马来西亚的实验室中输出。

National and international players
The first oil palm seed market developed in Malaysia, in conjunction with the very strict planting programme implemented in that country, which was launched in the 1970s and has never looked back since. Malaysia is now the world’s leading palm oil producer, though the areas planted in Indonesia are now more extensive than those in Malaysia (( figure 1 )). There are at least fifteen seed producers in the country. This is a closed market, and seed imports and exports are limited to a few special cases: Malaysian companies that have invested abroad are allowed to export seeds for their own use and, under the aegis of public organizations, there may occasionally be seed exports from Malaysia to certain countries (India, Colombia, Thailand, etc.).


尽管马来西亚实验室生产的种植品质不错，但由于保护主义和“孤芳自赏”的心态，渐渐被其他国家超越了。相信，英国，澳洲，新加坡的跨国实验室，已经超越了马来西亚。

The Malaysian market is therefore almost exclusively covered by national suppliers, but they have very little clout on international markets despite the quality and scope of the programmes being implemented by some of them. However, as with any protectionist measures, there remains a risk that the disseminated planting material, and the commodity chain, may lose its competitiveness, as illustrated by the stagnating average yields seen in Malaysia for the last 20 years or more, even if other agricultural reasons are sometimes blamed (( figure 2 )).

我在这里看到一篇有关于入口禁令的新闻，文中所指的“某些国”（countries, plural?）应该包括马来西亚。但有点令我好奇的是，seeds 和 germinated seeds（发芽种子）的入口禁令是不同的？

根据他的说法，马来西亚（如果有包括在内）并没有禁止种子入口，而只是禁止“发芽种子”入口？
除非他所指的“某些国”不包括马来西亚。
Non Germinated Oil Palm Seed Now Available
Due to the recently increased demand for oil palm seed from countries with restrictions on the importation of germinated seeds, Palm Plantations Of Australia is now supplying it’s High Yielding Oil Palm Seed in NON-GERMINATED form.

这家澳洲公司生产的种子，我是半信半疑的，他的网站是http://www.palmplantations.com.au/


以上博文只是应《tsh的印尼地价》   一文中的一段错误作出交代而已。

至于出入口禁令疑问的部分，应该和你的投资（尤其是最近）没有太大冲突。


【补充】
这个问题，当然有好也有坏，例如转基因（genetic modification）的问题。
据我所知，马来西亚境内是没有转基因油棕的，如果把国外的种子带进来，不适应本地环境是其次，如果出现“污染”，后果是很严重的，因为转基因的后代，也具备转基因的特性。

很少人会大肆宣传自己的种子是转基因的，很难知道国外有多少转基因油棕，但油棕的转基因程度，不像黄豆那样“彻头彻尾”的作出改变，只是稍微调整而已。例如让油棕更适应气候，更适应在缺少特定矿物质的土壤。