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 ...

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 ...

Beyond the obvious deforestation that results from clearing lowland rainforest for plantations (86 percent of deforestation in Malaysia from 1995-2000 was for oil palm plantations), there are ...

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 ...

Meanwhile, in Malaysia, the state of Sarawak has stopped issuing provisional licences for new palm oil plantations, reports Human Rights Watch. According to Luciana Tellez-Chavez, a senior researcher ...

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 ...

However, the net integrated plantation company’s net profit ... for the construction of an integrated sustainable palm oil complex and replanting, 43% will be channelled towards the repayment ...

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 ...