That began to change when Berna began working with the Kalangala Oil Palm Growers Trust (KOPGT) and the family planted their first oil palm trees in 2012. They expanded their crop in 2019 and again in ...

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.

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In addition, the sap of oil palms was tapped for palm wine, and palm fronds provided material for roof thatching and brooms. Early 19th-century boom.

Indonesia, the world's biggest palm oil biodiesel user, ... Indonesia could make about 5.6 million kl of bioethanol a year from palm trunk sap alone, ITB found, ...

JAKARTA — Illegal oil palm plantations spanning an area one and a half times the size of London have been amnestied under an Indonesian government program that critics say incentivizes large ...

Another palm oil giant, Kuala Lumpur Kepong Bhd KLKK.KL, told Reuters it plans to replant 10,000 hectares this year, up from a lower-than-usual 6,000 hectares in 2022.