Eighteen farmers from Pepesa in the Prestea Huni-Valley Municipality have received aid from the Gold Fields Ghana Foundation (GFGF) to establish an oil palm nursery production company called “Ecopalms ...

Ghana’s oil palm industry is grappling with a significant production shortfall, raising concerns about the sector’s long-term ...

A total of 61 independent oil palm farmers from Batubara Regency, North Sumatra, participated in a field trip to PT Eastern ...

Palm oil contains about 50% saturated fat, which increases "bad" LDL cholesterol. But it is better for you than other tropical oils like coconut oil.

Palm oil is in bread, instant noodles, Girl Scout cookies, lipstick, Nutella and ice cream, to name a few. People around the world use it to cook daily. But to make all of that oil, ...

In neighbouring Malaysia, where oil palms tend to be older, the replanting rate in 2022 slowed to 100,000 hectares from 160,000 hectares replanted in 2020, according to the Malaysian Palm Oil Board.

JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesian palm oil exports to the United States may fall due to the 32% tariffs threatened on Indonesian ...

Temporal variation in nitrous oxide (N2O) fluxes from an oil palm plantation in Indonesia: An ecosystem‐scale analysis. GCB Bioenergy, 2023; 15 (10): 1221 DOI: 10.1111/gcbb.13088; ...

Across swathes of Southeast Asia, maturing palm oil trees, some as tall as a 12-storey building, are turning into a multi-billion dollar headache for local farmers, regional governments and ...

High Palm Oil Prices Mean Farmers Don't Replace Aging Trees Slow replanting due to high costs and potential loss of income ‘With El Nino, we can really suffer,’ planter Golden Agri says ...

Item 1 of 2 A mini tractor grabber collects palm oil fruits at a plantation in Pulau Carey, Malaysia, January 31, 2020. Picture taken January 31, 2020.

“Palm oil has been a pervasive problem for a while,” said Ashley Thomson, a senior policy adviser at Global Witness. “What this analysis shows, in the other commodities as well, is just how ...