Following is a transcript of the video. Palm oil is a cheap and ubiquitous. It's used in thousands of everyday products and is the most widely consumed vegetable oil on the planet. You can get a ...

Palm oil is now the world’s most popular vegetable ... Hurowitz argues that Gabon should be developing ecotourism instead. A relatively safe country with spectacular parks and wildlife, it ...

Now the question is, is palm oil good or bad for the planet? On one hand, palm oil is said to be a super-efficient oil crop as it takes less land to produce the same amount of oil as other oils ...

But it's not good news in all parts of the island. "While the orangutan population has stabilised in large forest areas, their numbers declined in forest patches within oil palm landscapes," WWF said.

Palm oil is used in everything from cosmetics to food to soap. There is enormous demand for it. But it is hugely controversial because it involves the clearing of tropical rainforests to grow palm ...

Diversification by Regional Plantation Companies (RPCs) into non-traditional areas such as palm oil cultivation and processing is showing good results, according to the Planters’ Association of Ceylon ...

Though oil palm is a famously productive crop ... to generate much higher levels of productivity per hectare through good management practices, use of higher-yielding modern varieties and a ...

PUTRAJAYA: Either abolish the windfall profit levy on palm oil production or raise the threshold to make it worthwhile, the Plantation and Commodities Ministry has told the government. Its ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Implementation of higher biodiesel mandates in Indonesia, the world's biggest palm oil producer, is likely to tighten supplies of the vegetable oil, a leading ...