Palm oil is found in half the products sold in supermarkets and in biofuels. Around 50 per cent of the world’s supply is grown in Indonesia, mostly on massive plantations. Government land ...

JAKARTA — Indonesia’s highest court has upheld a $61 million fine against an oil palm company over massive fires on its plantation that razed an area seven times the size of New York City’s ...

Palm oil is different from most agricultural commodities because the raw harvested product, ... a 5,000-hectare plantation would require another US$ 50 millions of investment capital.

Stagnating palm-oil production and a biodiesel push in Indonesia could keep the ... or just 2% of total planted area in 2024, against a target of 4% to 5%, Plantation Minister Johari Abdul Ghani ...

Oil palm plantations are driving massive downstream impact to watershed Date: May 2, 2024 Source: University of Massachusetts Amherst Summary: The global demand for palm oil -- the most widely ...

After a tip about unsustainable logging at a Malaysian state-run oil palm plantation, former Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN) Fellow Low Choon Chyuan launched a yearlong investigation, ...

image: Industrial oil palm plantation in Jambi, Sumatra. view more . Credit: Gustavo Paterno. Southeast Asia’s tropical forests are renowned for their biodiversity, but at the same time face ...

Some 200,000 hectares (494,210 acres) of oil palm plantations found in areas designated as forests in Indonesia are expected to be returned to the state to be converted back into forests, a ...

A Mega Oil Palm Plantation Program was successfully held today at Garjee Sector in Tripura's Gomati district, marking a significant step towards promoting oil palm cultivation under the National ...

In a decade-long study in Malaysia, researchers discovered that 57 percent of macaques born between 2014 and 2023 died before they were even a year old.

BHUBANESWAR: The state government on Thursday signed memorandum of understanding (MoU) with three companies to increase the cover of oil palm plantation to boost production of edible oil and ...

The international research team established 52 tree islands of varying sizes and diversity of planted trees in a conventional industrial oil palm plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia.