Palm trees grace the landscape across Africa, thriving in environments as diverse as deserts and rainforests. Central Africa holds the richest variety, home to 52 species, while west Africa has 38 and ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The oil palm tree is native to one of the largest contiguous blocks of lowland rainforest in West Africa, and provides food and habitat for many ...

Researchers have identified 6.5 million hectares of previously unrecorded oil palm growing wild, semi-wild and in gardens, across Africa—an area three times larger than all African commercial ...

Oil palm farmers in Telangana are reeling from massive losses after being supplied genetically defective seedlings, allegedly by TG OIL FED. With plantations failing to bear fruit, cultivators demand ...

Despite being regarded as Africa’s largest producer of crude palm oil and the fifth-largest producer globally, Nigeria imported palm oil worth about N68 billion from three West African countries in ...

Bangkok, Thailand (10 November) -- At its 14th Annual Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, the Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) publicly awarded leading global agribusiness company Olam ...

Salvador, the capital of Bahia state, is promoting the reuse of residual palm oil from its iconic acarajé fritters — ...