Sentences with phrase «of oil palm»

Strong economic growth during the 1990s led to a major expansion of oil palm estates, providing palm oil for international export.

Both are obtained from the fruit, but the latter is derived from the seeds of the oil palm.

These platforms are being leveraged on to improve efficiency of oil palm breeding and tissue culture.

The new law would allow up to 30 percent of this reserve to consist of oil palm.

Let's get formal commitment from the Malaysian government that this project is canceled, and to stop all Malaysian government and private industry funding of oil palm expansion overseas.

The study is the most comprehensive analysis of the impact of oil palm plantations in tropical forests on climate and biodiversity.

Palm oil is derived from the fruit of oil palm trees which thrive in warm, wet conditions.

The elephant in the room for Malaysia and Indonesia is what happens should Brazil make good on its goal to establish 5 million hectares of oil palm plantations on long - ago deforested lands?

But a bigger problem with the study is the failure to examine the impact of oil palm plantations, which Surjadi says are «more dangerous to biodiversity [than] logging.»

The Red Wonder Oil Another tropical product that has been shown to have numerous health benefits is red palm oil, which comes from the fruit of oil palm trees.

What this shows is that the majority of oil palm plantations were developed on degraded lands, meaning forests converted to ferns, grasslands and scrubs by drought and recurrent burning, mainly during El Nino years,» Gaveau said in a presentation at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation.

The planting of oil palm plantations leads to the loss of natural forests and peat lands and plays havoc with ecosystems and biodiversity.

So far, research on the environmental impact of oil palm cultivation has been scattered and patchy.

On August 25th, Aidesep, the Interethnic Association for the Development of the Peruvian Amazon, convoked the nine indigenous federations of the Amazon, and declared a regulatory emergency on the growth of oil palm in the country.

A multinational team of scientists has identified a single gene, called Shell, that regulates yield of the oil palm tree.

«Full genome map of oil palm indicates way to raise yields and protect rainforest: Single gene identified whose regulation controls oil palm yield.»

The majority of oil palm products used by BASF are based on palm kernel oil and its derivatives; to a lesser extent on palm oil.

Mr Crentsil who emerged as the overall best farmer was praised for engaging in various agricultural productions including 120acres of cocoa, 80acres of rubber, 60acres of plantain, 60acres of cowpea, 30acres of cassava, 15acres of citrus, 7acres of oil palm, 6acres of coconut.

His group and Sambanthamurthi's team applied that technique to five strains of oil palm, sampling the parent, a normal clone, and a mantled clone in each strain.

«Mutations in Shell explain the single most important economic trait of the oil palm: how the thickness of its shell correlates to fruit size and oil yield,» explains Dr. Rajinder Singh of the MPOB, first author of the Nature paper describing the Shell gene.

There are two species of oil palm, African (Elaeis guineensis) and South American (Elaeis oleifera).

The transcriptome and epigenome of oil palm were also deciphered.

The goal of the Malaysian Oil Palm Genome Programme (MyOPGP) is to produce a draft sequence of the oil palm genome.

Conclusions We present an accurate and comprehensive annotation of the oil palm genome, focusing on analysis of important categories of genes (GC3 - rich and intronless), as well as those associated with important functions, such as FA biosynthesis and disease resistance.

In comparison, only one - seventh of the oil palm genes identified are intronless.

If you were to replace palm with soybean, canola, and / or sunflower oil, you would need to increase land use from seven to 10 times to produce the same amount of oil palm oil produces.

Palm oil is extracted from two types of oil palm fruit: Elaeis guineensis, which is common in African regions, and Elaeis oleifera, whichis found in South America.1 Historical accounts suggest that palm oil was a part of the diet of indigenous populations.

The irrigation trenches his family had dug between the rows of oil palms didn't extend to the rear fence and the new fronds were browning even before they fanned open.

«The government has assured us that the expansion of oil palm estates will continue within reasonable limits,» Bangun was quoted as saying.

«As it has become more difficult to obtain logging rights in Myanmar, businesses are seeking to obtain the rights of oil palm concessions that would allow them to clear - cut this valuable timber.

Here, RED payments would compensate land users for their opportunity costs in not converting unprotected forests into oil palm, while the construction of new roads to service the marketing of oil palm would be halted.

EIA revealed the details and irregularities of oil palm plantations in the Peruvian Amazon owned by Grupo Melka and Grupo Romero in the investigative report, Deforestation by Definition, yet weak laws and enforcement allows for continued violations.

A report highlighting the criminal activities of an oil palm plantation company operating in Kalimantan, Indonesia, and the failures of various levels of government to properly investigate and prosecute..

On the Philippine island of Palawan, resistance against the spread of oil palm plantations is building.

«Plantation» refers to an area allocated by a government or other body for the establishment of fast growing tree plantations for the production of oil palm, timber, or other wood products, including pulp and paper.

«Additional analysis is required to look beyond industrial oil palm plantations and capture the dynamics of oil palm expansion in smallholder lands, and how other actors, including local investors, are shaping land use dynamics linked to oil palm expansion».

The impasse has apparently produced a «toothless» (as one observer describes it) agreement to convene a second GHG working group to keep deliberating on GHG emissions of oil palm.

In making such claims, these Indonesian officials are ignoring data that show the opposite, putting the credibility of the oil palm industry at risk, and undermining efforts to slow deforestation and reign in greenhouse gas emissions.

JAKARTA — An artist working with environmental activists has carved out a distress call from a stand of thousands of oil palm trees in a former plantation on the edge...

By transferring the land to the exclusive propagation of oil palm, areas are losing the ability to grow food for themselves.»

But a study published today in the National Academy of Sciences, found that half of oil palm plantations in Indonesian Borneo were established on peat lands.

The rehabilitation of these forests after the clearance of the oil palm has recreated a critical wildlife corridor now used by elephants, tigers and orangutans for the first time in 12 years.

This, however, exempts from certification the vast number of smaller plantations that, combined, account for 40 percent of oil palm plantations in the country.

Amphibians such as frogs are especially vulnerable to these alterations, and depend upon a variety of aquatic sites for reproduction that are typically not found in the relatively drier conditions of oil palm plantations.