If you read ingredient labels, you’ll see palm and palm kernel oil everywhere: in bread, chocolate, frozen pizza – even soap, toothpaste and cosmetics. No wonder the oil palm tree, whose fruit and ...

Demand for palm oil and other derivatives from oil palm tree is growing rapidly. Local producers are not able to satisfy requirements of the food industry and households.The deficit in supply has ...

Oluwatosin, the Chief Executive Officer of LSX Integrated Agro Processing, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos. He also harped on the viability of ...

Palm oil comes from the fruit of oil palm trees (Elaeis guineensis) and is suitable for consumption. Oil palm trees only grow in tropical regions, being native to Africa and brought to southeast Asia ...

Over the past two decades, demand for vegetable oil has quadrupled, with palm oil leading the charge in quenching the world’s thirst for vegetable oil. Palm oil is highly prized for its diversity of ...

The Youth In Oil Palm Initiative, established by the Volta Red Company Ltd to attract more people into oil palm farming, is ...

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A number of initiatives have taken hold in several European countries to promote the sourcing and use of sustainable palm oil, whether certified by the RSPO or other schemes. In this article, Patricia ...