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Palm oil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Oil palm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pejibaye Palm, Coconut, Date Palm, Senegal Date Palm, African Oil Palm, Saw Palmetto, Jelly Palm, Betel Nut, Amazonian Starnut Palm, and Chilean Wine Palm ... A mature African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) and cartload of palm fruits near Quepos, Costa Rica. The fruits are harvested for their oil-rich mesocarp (pulp)
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Palma Tica is a company working in the area of cultivation, processing and production of oil palm products. It owns thousands of hectares of oil palm plantations (Elaeis guineensis) in the Central Pacific Region (Quepos Division) and in the Southern Region (Coto Division).
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A modern oil palm plantation needs a grower who has learned how to cultivate oil palms. ... To make a modern oil palm plantation takes money. ... Before you start an oil palm plantation, you must calculate carefully whether you will be able to pay all these expenses.
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High yiekding oil palm seeds and high density oil palm clones...
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Table 3: Gross and net monthly income derived from independent corn farming vis-à-vis palm oil production in the PT Surya Lestari II PIR-Trans smallholder scheme 34; Table 4: Examples of wages for oil palm plantation field workers in North Sumatra, 2002 41;
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The human rights impacts of oil palm plantation expansion in Indonesia; Executive Summary; The challenge of tackling climate change has created a growing world market for agrofuels – vegetable crops which can be used to produce fuel for transport and power stations.
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To some it may sound like the ultimate nightmare, others see a great sign of hope: a Chinese company, ZTE International, is to invest US$1 billion in an immense 3 million hectare oil palm plantation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) with the aim to produce biofuels.
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massive oil palm plantation canceled; Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com; March 28, 2006;; Today Indonesia announced its would end plans to establish a 1.8 million hectare oil plantation in the rainforest of Borneo.
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