BANGALORE, Feb 24 (Reuters) - New Britain Palm Oil agreed to buy plantations in Papua New Guinea (PNG) for $175 million, increasing plantation area by 50 percent, and said it was in line with ...

thriving palm oil industry, backed by a Malaysian privately controlled company East New Britain Plantation Group (ENBP), is set to become the new economic backbone of Kokopo, the provincial ...

New Britain has about 80,000 hectares of oil palm plantations, more than 7,700 hectares of sugar cane and a further 9,300 hectares of grazing pasture in Papua New Guinea. It also owns 12 mills and ...

“When we learned of issues associated with mills owned by East New Britain Resources ... future in palm oil. By 2030, it plans to increase the size of its palm plantation tracts tenfold from ...

The map shows land concessions granted by governments, deforestation (and reforestation), active fires, and plantations ... palm oil not created in a sustainable way," Talocchi said. To make the ...

the western half of New Guinea's island, an area of more than 1,000 square miles. Approximately one-quarter of the watershed has been turned into oil palm plantations. The watershed is also one of ...

The rapid spread of oil palm plantations and associated high use of fertilizer raises concerns about the emission of nitrous oxide (N 2 O), a powerful greenhouse gas. A new study by an ...

So far, our research found that 3 million hectares of tropical peat swamp forests in Malaysia and Indonesia have been replaced by palm oil plantations. Even as you read this article, new areas are ...

This is a mature palm plantation that’s reaching the end ... and eventually they get bulldozed in order to make room for new oil palms. Palm fruits grow in dense bundles that are wedged tightly ...