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 ...

The arrival of the palm oil plantation just south of the border with Mexico, where most people live in poverty, offered hope — at least at first. The wider industry has brought around 28,000 ...

The complex to be set up in Khammam district ... around 90,000 acres of area and help Telangana achieve targets for oil palm plantation. The company will invest Rs 300 crore over the next three ...

he government plans to use swaths of confiscated oil palm plantations to continue planting oil palm in the interest of national energy security, while environmental groups demand the areas ...

INVESTMENT and economic opportunities are set to grow in Kota Tinggi district, thanks to the Integrated Sustainable Palm Oil ...

JAKARTA, March 10 (Reuters) - Indonesian prosecutors on Monday handed over more than 221,000 hectares (546,000 acres) of illegal palm oil plantations seized as part of an on-going corruption probe ...

Despite also holding Indonesia’s sustainable palm oil certification, the ISPO, the companies have been found draining peatlands, deforesting, and expanding plantations in violation of ...

Previously, the Sarawak government granted these “provisional” leases to palm oil and timber companies to develop plantations before the administration surveyed the land. Despite the name ...

Palm oil plantations in two states in Malaysia, the world’s second-biggest producer of the commodity, have been hit by infestations, a minister said, as the country recovers from floods that have ...