The Star

If I were an oil palm fruit bunch

I HAVE long harboured a quiet ambition – not the trumpet-blowing kind of social media, but a stubborn wish to explain palm oil without frightening flow charts or reviving science trauma. For years, I ...
Science Daily

Cutting palm trees to harvest fruit? Better to let trees grow

Scientists have shown for the first time the widespread harm caused in Peru by cutting down the palm tree Mauritia flexuosa in order to harvest its fruit. The scientists examined where and why the ...
EurekAlert!

Close-Up of Oil Palm Fruit Bunch (IMAGE)

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Reuters

Malaysia's Sime Darby says dry weather could lower its palm oil, fresh fruit bunch output

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Malaysia's Sime Darby Bhd, the world's largest palm oil planter by land size, says the drying effects of the El Nino and a prolonged drought could lower its palm oil ...
Yahoo

Malaysia's Felda Global Ventures lowers fresh fruit bunch output target

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 (Reuters) - Malaysia's Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (FGV), the world's third-largest palm plantation operator, lowered its target for fresh fruit bunch production for the ...