Labour issues, along with low productivity from old trees and crop disease, are crimping output growth in the world’s ...

Low-hanging fruit in harvesting No machine yet matches the speed, precision and adaptability of a skilled oil palm harvester. The dream of fully mechanised harvesting is alluring, but the real ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Sime Darby Plantation Bhd (SDP) is leveraging the advancements in robotics to develop a machine that can be used to harvest oil palm’s fresh fruit bunches (FFB), which it hopes ...

The Chinese government claimed in 2021 that more than 80% of cotton harvesting was done by machine. But people are still ...

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To fill this gap, University of Sheffield scientists engineered the technology with forest data from the World Resources Institute that could pick up individual tree loss and patterns of selective ...

Question 1: What is palm oil, and what makes it so important? Answer: Palm oil (derived from the oil palm species Elaeis guineensis) is the most widely traded and consumed vegetable oil in the world.

about 70% of palm oil is produced by small-scale farmers, many of whom depend on harvesting wild palm groves. The report also noted a regional imbalance as West Africa consumes more palm oil than ...

JAKARTA, May 16 (Reuters) - The Indonesia Palm Oil Association, GAPKI, on Friday urged the government to delay a planned hike in the palm oil export levy, warning it could harm competitiveness ...

A new report, Palm Oil Barometer 2025: Procurement for Prosperity, has called for significant changes in global palm oil sourcing practices to ensure that smallholder farmers, particularly those ...