In my work as an extension services expert, of late I have noticed many farmers asking about production of palm oil having heard there is a solid demand. To help you make an informed decision if you ...

Much has changed for Nassozi Berna, her husband, and seven children since she began farming palm oil 12 years ago on Kalangala, an island in Uganda’s Lake Victoria. Before that Nassozi and her husband ...

Palm is the world's most widely used vegetable oil and likely the most versatile, featuring in anything from cosmetics to chocolate to fuel to margarine. Harvested from the oil palm tree, its yields ...

Palm oil is one of the world’s most widely used vegetable oils and found in nearly 50 percent of all packaged products, according to the World Wildlife Fund. It plays a vital role in foods, baked ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Palm oil production in the world's largest producers, Indonesia and Malaysia, will remain squeezed this year amid anticipation of rising demand from key market China, ...

Palm oil has long had a reputation as an environmentally destructive crop, but is that warranted? And are the alternatives ...

Humans have a tendency to exploit until we deplete. We manipulate a resource until it is drained, or until the effects of its decline are so severe that we are forced to move on to another supply. A ...

Indonesian soldiers in fatigues marched onto a private palm oil plantation on Borneo island in late June and posted a ...

Nigeria spends $600 million annually importing palm oil despite having the natural resources and historical expertise to produce it locally.

Indonesia’s palm oil export revenue jumped 43% to $24.79 billion by August, supported by higher prices and improved ...

On a former sugarcane plantation in Oahu that was abandoned for decades, rows of trees now grow in the degraded soil. The trees—called pongamia—aren’t new to Hawaii. But a company called Terviva is ...