At the Palm Centre in the Wilayat of Rustaq, entrepreneur Hiba Al-Hattali has launched a remarkable initiative to transform agricultural waste—including palm fronds and banana leaves—into high-quality ...

That would be bad news for the planet, as virgin palm oil is linked to increased tropical deforestation, which adds to climate change and threatening endangered species like orang-utans.

For him, though, it’s the monotonous food like sago, a starch extracted from the pith of tropical palm stems, that really gets to him. “It’s very bland. But then someone brings you a ...

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