Palm oil trees have a 25-year lifecycle, after which productivity declines. In Indonesia alone, smallholders occupy large portions of plantation land, and ideally, 260,000 hectares should be ...

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.

A 2017 investigation by Mongabay and The Gecko Project documented how former Seruyan leader Darwan Ali blanketed the district in oil palm plantation concessions beginning in the mid-2000s ...

resident Prabowo Subianto’s renewed call to expand oil palm plantation areas has sparked debates on deforestation and climate commitments. While palm oil brings in more than US$20 billion ...

After a tip-off about unsustainable logging at a state-run oil palm plantation, Low Choon Chyuan conducted a year-long ...

PETALING JAYA: Genting Plantations Bhd ’s decision to dispose ... including acquiring new oil palm estates, property development and reducing external borrowings, within 12 to 24 months of ...

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 ...

as large areas of tropical rainforest are cleared to make way for oil palm plantations. Palm oil contains a significant amount of saturated fat (about 50%). Diets high in saturated fats can raise ...

I would like to refer briefly also to two other domestic issues of significant importance, namely the land and housing reform, and the nationalization of the plantations. Land reform was ultimately a ...

The government must seriously focus on local palm oil plantations without delay," said experts. Federal Minister for Industries, Production Division, and National Food Security and Research ...

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