"When fresh fruit bunch prices rose, this became problematic," he told Reuters. In neighbouring Malaysia, where oil palms tend to be older, the replanting rate in 2022 slowed to 100,000 hectares ...

monitoring the oil palm fruits as they ripen. Self-driving trucks rumble over the vast plantation’s uneven ground, laying fertilizer and picking up the densely packed harvested bunches. These are just ...

This gesture is reproduced thousands of times a day across Côte d'Ivoire to recover the oil palm bunches trapped at the base of the tree's branches. In the country, Africa's second-largest palm ...