Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil that comes from the fruit grown on the African oil palm tree. The trees, which were previously found only in Africa, are now grown in Asia, North America and ...

APKASINDO estimates at least 25% of palm oil mills have stopped buying palm fruit from independent farmers since the ban started, indicating storage tanks are filling up at mills. Similar protests ...

See All Key Ideas BATANGHARI, Indonesia — In a sweltering oil palm field in Batanghari village, Rokani fixes a sickle to an 11-meter (36-foot) pole and begins cutting down bunches of fruit from ...

In the study published in the journal Nature Communications, the scientists identified the VIR gene as responsible for fruit color. Currently, the majority of the oil palm fruit harvested in ...

Using this discovery, fruit specially bred or gene-edited to not drop from trees, bushes and vines could save manufacturers a mint, as scientists claim spoilage and wastage could be significantly ...

Oil palm growers in Indonesia can boost soil health and reduce their fertilizer use by adding waste biomass back to the soil, a new study says. Biomass such as pruned palm fronds and empty fruit ...

In 2016, it was reported that Sarawak lost some RM2.8bil in revenue a year due to the shortage of 12,000 fruit harvesters. Based on Malaysian Palm Oil Board data, as at Dec 31, 2023, Sarawak had ...

Researchers in Colombia are using deep learning models to predict the ripeness of oil palm fruit, helping to increase efficiency. Isis Bonet Cruz, a Cuban researcher and professor at the La ...

Growing oil palm is simple. Men harvest the fruit manually with a sharp knife attached to a long pole; women spread fertilizers and herbicides from containers carried on their backs. Field tasks ...