Sentences with phrase «oil palm trees instead»

Anyway tropical traditions isn't telling the whole story perhaps because they will now have to pay more to maintain an exclusive Philippine market of meat / oil palm trees instead of allowing farmers to diversify to profit from market demand.

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Moreover, the article states that the increasing popularity of palm sugar will cause the price of products like coconut oil, coconut flour, and shredded coconut to skyrocket because low income coconut tree farmers will choose to use their trees to produce coconut sugar instead of mature coconuts.

Instead, the report suggests, the demand for illegal wood is likely fed by trees harvested during the clear - cutting of natural forests for new oil palm and pulp plantations.