Sentences with phrase «hectares of oil palm»

Between 2000 and 2006 Indonesia planted roughly half a million hectares of oil palm a year, mostly on recently deforested land.

The commissioner said that for oil palm, government had commenced the raising of 220, 000 improved oil palm seedlings for distribution to 250 farmers for cultivation on 500 hectares of Oil palm plantations.

In theory, growers can squeeze as much as 18 tonnes of oil in a year from one hectare of oil palm, but currently they are attaining only about 4 tonnes per year on average.

Not exact matches

Defined as farmers with 50 hectares or less of land, smallholders produce 40 per cent of the US$ 66 billion industry's oil, but only 14.5 per cent of the world's sustainable palm oil.

Pornsiri Raknukul, who runs a farm of 16 hectares in Krabi province, Southern Thailand, is one of 160,000 palm oil smallholders who run farms certified as sustainable by industry association Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSpalm oil smallholders who run farms certified as sustainable by industry association Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPoil smallholders who run farms certified as sustainable by industry association Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPalm Oil (RSPOil (RSPO).

Colombia claims its palm oil is «unique and differentiated» and that it has 44 million hectares of under - utilised, already degraded land to develop it without causing any deforestation.

«Together with a 50 - hectare permanent plot in the Danum valley conservation area and the Sabah Biodiversity Experiment, the SAFE project means that we can now study the entire gamut of land use in the region, from pristine forest to fragmented forest and restored forest, to oil palm plantation.

Your article on the study of habitat fragmentation in Borneo carried out in co-operation with loggers states that 75,000 hectares of primary forest in Sabah is being cleared to develop oil - palm plantations (22 October, p 7).

Yayasan Sabah — the Sabah Foundation, a Malaysian state - owned company — is felling 75,000 hectares of rainforest on the island of Borneo and converting it to lucrative palm oil plantation.

In Indonesia and Malaysia, where some 85 % of the world's palm oil is produced, more than 16 million hectares of land — rainforest, peat bogs and old rubber plantations — have been taken over by oil palm, and there is no sign of the industry slowing down.

Whether it's the destruction of rainforest shared by elephants and orangutans in Sumatra to produce palm oil; reports linking fast food giants to the burning of tropical forests in Brazil and Bolivia; or the hundreds of thousands of hectares of tree cover loss per year in West Africa — the world's forests are being razed to sate global demand for -LSB-...]

And more is to come: The Indonesian government wants to put 10 million hectares of land into oil palm cultivation by 2015, up from the current total of 6 million hectares.

10,000 hectares of forest near Lake Victoria are about to be destroyed for oil palm plantations: the Ugandan government is awarding land on Buvuma Island to international investors.

In Indonesia, for example, where oil palm covers approximately 10.5 million hectares of land, companies have vowed to halt deforestation and the draining of peat swamps, thereby certifying their products as not having contributed to the destruction of forests or increased greenhouse gas emissions.

To illustrate the economic potential of carbon credits versus oil - palm, we compared the net present value (NPV) of a standard 1,000 - hectare sawit kelapa plantation to a 1,000 - hectare peat swamp preserved for its carbon value.

Together, the projects being developed collectively by Cacao del Perú Norte S.A.C. (operating a cacao plantation in Loreto), Plantaciones de Ucayali S.A.C., and Plantaciones de Pucallpa S.A.C. (both operating oil palm plantations in Ucayali), are responsible for over 11,000 hectares of illegal deforestation, mainly of primary tropical rainforest.

The research, based on a literature review and analysis of scientific methods used to derive emissions estimates, concludes that palm oil produced in peatland areas generates 86 metric tons of carbon dioxide per hectare per year over a 50 - year time period, well above the 50 ton estimate used previously.

Environmental groups within RSPO tried to mandate that future oil palm expansion can only occur on land with net carbon storage lower than oil palm (less than 40 tons of carbon per hectare averaged over the 25 - 30 year lifespan of an plantation).

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

This oil palm cultivation is responsible for the destruction of 30,206 hectares of forest, equivalent to 29 percent of total annual deforestation in the country.

Oil palm is currently cultivated on 77,537 hectares of land in the regions of San Martin, Ucayali, Loreto and Huánuco, and is slated to expand exponentially, despite the recent statement by the Government Accountability Office of Peru that oil palm is the main driver of deforestatiOil palm is currently cultivated on 77,537 hectares of land in the regions of San Martin, Ucayali, Loreto and Huánuco, and is slated to expand exponentially, despite the recent statement by the Government Accountability Office of Peru that oil palm is the main driver of deforestatioil palm is the main driver of deforestation.

(11/12/2013) Some 3.5 million hectares (8.7 million acres) of forest in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea was converted for oil palm plantations between 1990 and 2010, finds a comprehensive set of assessments released by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPoil palm plantations between 1990 and 2010, finds a comprehensive set of assessments released by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSpalm plantations between 1990 and 2010, finds a comprehensive set of assessments released by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPalm Oil (RSPOil (RSPO).

Meanwhile, more than 100,000 hectares of peatland forests are destroyed each year for oil palm and agricultural plantations.

A study found that of the 3,300 tons of carbon per hectare stored in Indonesia's coastal peatland areas, up to half would be released into the atmosphere over the 100 years following conversion to oil palm plantations — the equivalent of 2,800 years» worth of accumulated carbon.

Though Indonesia and Malaysia seem hell bent on chopping down their rainforests and replacing them with palm oil plantations, a new study in the journal Conservation Letters shows that selling carbon credits from the intact forests could be just as profitable as converting them to agriculture, and go a long way towards preserving biodiversity (not to mention stopping the orangutan from going extinct): In the article, report lead author Oscar Venter of the University of Queensland says that oil palm plantations currently threaten some 3.3 million hectares of forest in Kalimantan (the Indonesian part of the island or Borneo).

«In particular, palm oil production, the production of soy and rubber, logging and livestock farming and ranching are wiping out millions of hectares of forest.»

It found that of the 3,300 tons of carbon per hectare stored in Indonesia's coastal peatland areas, up to half would be released into the atmosphere over the 100 years following conversion to oil palm plantations — the equivalent of 2,800 years worth of accumulated carbon.

(06/04/2009) Indonesia's decision earlier this year to allow conversion of up to 2 million hectares of peatlands for oil palm plantations is «a monumental mistake» for the country's long - term economic prosperity and sustainability, argues an editorial published in the June issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

More than 100,000 hectares of peatland forests are destroyed each year for oil palm and agricultural plantations.

Indonesia's natural forests, losing 2 million hectares a year, have suffered some of the heaviest cutting and could disappear within 10 years as they give way to timber and oil - palm plantations.

The area under oil palm cultivation in Indonesia expanded from 673,000 hectares in 1990 to more than 5 million in 2008 and the country expects to produce 21 - 23 million tons of palm oil this year, extending its lead as the world's top producer.

Each year hundreds of thousands of hectares of peatlands are drained and cleared for oil palm and timber plantations on Indonesia and Malaysia.