Oil palm trees are native to Africa but were brought to South-East Asia just over 100 years ago as an ornamental tree crop. Now, Indonesia and Malaysia make up over 85% of global supply but there are ...

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 like coconut or soybean. It’s also incredibly versatile.

Oil crop areas will increase overall but the 2022 record of 18,600 thousand hectares will stay. "There is a probability that we will set a new record of oil crops harvesting in Russia. The harvest ...

and now oil and agriculture companies are teaming up to find additional crop sources to fuel the growing demand. Cover crops could be an additional source, which would also give farmers another ...

Grow a salt-tolerant, oil-seed, multi-use crop on saline land or dry land that can be irrigated with brackish water or seawater, thus freeing fresh water and high quality soil for food and feed and ...

And as a result, the oil has produced the region’s latest crop of billionaires. There is Vimal Shah and family, who control the cooking oil and soap business, and then there are the owners of ...

But now reports from Spain suggest that a wet winter followed by a return of normal temperatures last spring has produced a higher-than-normal crop. Wholesale prices for Spanish oil olive peaked ...

Most palm oil is grown in vast estates in Southeast Asia ... “We call on the IMO and member states to discourage the use of crop-based biofuels by ships,” the companies said.