JAKARTA, July 15 (Reuters) - Indonesia's palm oil industry is urging authorities to ease export restrictions and taxes so it can sell produce that risks going to waste, as an upcoming harvest season ...

Restrictions on oil palm cultivation in West Java should not be viewed simply as a question of whether planting is allowed or ...

Researchers in Colombia are using deep learning models to predict the ripeness of oil palm fruit, helping to increase efficiency. Isis Bonet Cruz, a Cuban researcher and professor at the La ...

Indonesia has removed palm oil from a list of commodities qualifying for subsidized chemical fertilizers. Farmers face an uncertain transition to using composting methods to boost nitrogen content in ...

Chemax says that wells located near deep rooted oil palm trees were particularly affected. For the past two years, some ...

Oil palm growers in Indonesia can boost soil health and reduce their fertilizer use by adding waste biomass back to the soil, a new study says. Biomass such as pruned palm fronds and empty fruit ...

JAKARTA, May 17 (Reuters) - Hundreds of Indonesian smallholder farmers staged a protest on Tuesday in the capital Jakarta and in other parts of the country, demanding the government end a palm oil ...

Palm oil is produced by pressing the flesh and kernel of the fruit of the oil palm, a tropical plant originating in West Africa. People in the region may have consumed the reddish oil even in ...