The oil palm tree, Elaeis guineensis, is native to West and central Africa, and commercial plantations are now expanding in the region. If a full-scale boom developed, it could encroach on crucial ...

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

Until, in 1981, African palm weevils were introduced ... The rapid expansion of palm oil plantations has led to the destruction of huge areas of tropical rainforest, creating dangerous CO2 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Borneo, this is predominantly for plantations of oil palm trees used to produce palm oil, approximately three-quarters of which are located where pristine forest grew in the 1970s ...