Acreage expansion off the table despite surging palm oil demand Dr. Rizal Affandi Lukman is the Secretary General ...

Oil palm cultivation started on Kalangala’s Buggala Island two decades ago. Thank you for reading Nation.Africa Show plans Oil palm farmers in the island district of Kalangala are in panic following ...

Published this month in the journal Science, the study says the extensive conversion of Southeast Asian natural forests into plantations of African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) has led to ...

Palm oil is a type of edible vegetable oil derived from the fruit of the oil palm tree (Elaeis guineensis), native to West Africa but now ... to make way for oil palm plantations.

According to Owolarafe, factors such as declining productivity of oil palm plantations due to old age, lack of appropriate technologies for palm fruit processing, and unfavourable government ...

Oil palm trees are native to Africa but were brought to South-East Asia just over 100 years ago as an ornamental tree crop. Now, Indonesia and Malaysia make up over 85% of global supply but there are ...

Don't write off logged tropical forests -- converting to oil palm plantations has even wider effects on ecosystems Date: January 9, 2025 Source: University of Oxford Summary: A research team has ...

resident Prabowo Subianto might not have thought his remarks would spark a controversy when he recently suggested that Indonesia expand oil palm plantations without worrying about deforestation.

“These decisions have severely impacted the commercial viability of the plantation sector, as sustaining agriculture without proper chemicals and adequate fertilizer is impossible. Another key setback ...

TEMPO.CO, Surabaya - Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto wants to expand oil palm plantations as palm oil is a very strategic product in the world. Therefore, Prabowo asked the businesses not to ...