It’s an edible vegetable oil that comes from the fruit of oil palm trees, the scientific name is Elaeis guineensis ... pygmy elephant and Sumatran rhino. This forest loss coupled with conversion of ...

Palm oil, which comes from the fruit of oil palm trees ... or roughly 6 million acres of forest loss. That’s almost five times the size of Delaware. When the forests fall, so do hugely important ...

Palm oil is much sought after because it is cheap and versatile ... “I don’t go to school… I only pick up the loose fruit. The hardest thing is to gather the loose fruit because they are heavy. My ...

Palm oil derives from the fruit of the oil palm tree. Its high fat content has led to concerns that it may raise cholesterol levels and increase the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD).

Female oil palm farmers typically work in low-pay jobs, weeding, spraying fertiliser, tending to seedings or collecting loose fruit on plantations in Indonesia, the world’s biggest producer of the ...

The cutting-edge technology is expected to provide an efficient and reliable method for assessing the quality of the fruit. This could revolutionize the palm oil industry. A team of faculty ...

While previous studies have examined carbon loss from the establishment ... Aiyen therefore recommends that after the fruit is processed into crude palm oil, the empty fruit bunches should be ...

Palm oil harvesters only know the fruit is ripe for picking when ... “The labour involved in picking up fallen fruit is backbreaking work,” Appleton adds. “If there’s less loose fruit lying around, it ...

A chronic shortage of plantation workers in Malaysia may cost palm oil producers about 20 billion ... many farmers had to leave ripened fruit rotting on trees. The number of foreign workers ...