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 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 ...

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 ...

scientists developed a scenario that replaced palm oil plantations with native forestry. Alongside this, the requirement of commercial space for farming of BSFL was also considered. Also read → How ...

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 ...

Ezzaruddin Abdul Rapar spends a lot of his time guiding guests around an “experience centre” on a giant oil palm plantation an hour’s drive west of Kuala Lumpur that is owned by Malaysian ...

The $40 billion palm oil industry is notorious for wiping out ... produce 85 percent of the world’s supply. Clearing land for plantations involves burning rainforest—in the process ...

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 ...