Governments in major palm oil exporters Malaysia and Indonesia have been aiming to regulate the industry. Two recent ...

“Most of the local population are involved in farming, but the primary objective is not oil palm farming,” he says. “[T]hey farm for rice and other food products, and eventually the natural ...

Stagnating palm-oil production and a biodiesel push in Indonesia could keep the price of cooking oil high for years.

MalaysiaBunches of oil palm fruit harvested by hand are trucked to a mill for processing in mainland Malaysia. Oil palms yield more oil per acre than do other crops. But soaring demand for the ...

Palm kernel oil, also called PKO, is a major agric export in Africa’s most populous nation earning foreign revenue for the country ...

The government has pegged the investment needed at Rp 802.56 trillion (US$50.5 billion) to ramp up processing across 11 key ...

KUALA LUMPUR, 12 Mac (Bernama) -- The Ministry of Plantation and Commodities (KPK) is urging oil palm plantation owners and ...

It is feared in major oil palm production areas that the ecosystem is being destroyed by logging, as tropical rainforests are cleared to develop farms. Human rights abuses such as child labor are ...

ACROSS south-eastern Liberia, oil palms grow wild in the forest. Known as “country palm,” the Elaeis guineensis tree is ...

Crude palm oil pours during processing at Agrivar, a palm oil factory in Samo, Ivory coast Apr 13, 2022. (Photo: Reuters/Luc Gnago) 10 Mar 2025 07:06AM (Updated: 10 Mar 2025 12:01PM) ...