The global demand for palm oil—the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet, in everything from instant noodles to lipstick—is driving worldwide tropical deforestation. While many ...

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 concessions ...

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 ...

Oct. 14, 2020 — Growing global demand for palm oil has led to a rapid spread of oil palm monoculture plantations in South East Asia, often associated with the loss of habitats and biodiversity ...

A research team led by the University of Oxford has carried out the most comprehensive assessment to date of how logging and conversion to oil palm plantations affect tropical forest ecosystems ...

Mr Prabowo’s comments came as Indonesia, a major palm oil exporter, makes preparations to comply with the EU’s Deforestation Regulation, which will kick in on Dec 30, 2025, after it was pushed ...

00:45 Tree islands bring biodiversity benefits for oil-palm plantation. Global demand for palm oil has resulted in huge expansion of the palm plantations needed to produce it, ...

Oil palm plantations are more productive than alternative vegetable oil crops. But, they are still monocultures of relatively young plants with simple structures, requiring heavy use of chemical ...

United Palm Oil Industry Public Company Limited is a manufacturer and distributor of palm oil and related products. The company has oil palm plantation area of 44,215.57 rai.

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.