Players in the palm oil industry have engaged the Malaysian High Commission to encourage Malaysian palm oil firms to invest in Ghana's palm oil industry.

The industry players want their counterparts in Malaysia to speed up Ghana's transition period of becoming self-sufficient with the production of oil palm.

Reports have it that Europeans in Malaysia in the early 1900 travelled to Ghana to learn about oil palm plantation cultivation and managed to take away seeds, and production techniques to grow their industry.

This has enabled Malaysia to be named the world's second-largest producer of palm oil after Indonesia as their economy largely rests on the commodity.