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The palm oil industry has had both positive and negative impacts on workers, indigenous peoples, and residents of palm oil producing communities. Palm oil production provides employment opportunities, and has been shown to improve infrastructure, and social services and reduce poverty.
The remains of a peat forest in Indragiri Hulu, Riau Province, Indonesia to make way for oil palm plantation.. Production of palm oil in Indonesia has, since 1964, recorded a phenomenal increase from 157,000 metric tons (155,000 long tons; 173,000 short tons) to 41.5 million metric tons (40,800,000 long tons; 45,700,000 short tons) in 2018 [7] and a total of 51 million metric tons (50,000,000 ...
The Council of Palm Oil Producing Countries (CPOPC) is an intergovernmental organization founded by Indonesia and Malaysia to collectively promote the global use of palm oil. Together, the two countries produce the majority of the world's palm oil, a product that has come under pressure due to environmental concerns.
In 2012, the Malaysian palm oil industry employed an estimated 491,000 workers. [13] Malaysia's Sime Darby is the largest listed palm oil company globally, based on plantation area and fresh fruit bunch production. [14] The company was created through a Malaysian government initiated merger in December 2006.
Top 5 oil-producing countries 1980–2022 World oil production This is a list of countries by oil production (i.e., petroleum production), as compiled from the U.S. Energy Information Administration database for calendar year 2023, tabulating all countries on a comparable best-estimate basis.
[114] [115] Though Indonesia produces more palm oil, Malaysia is the world's largest exporter of palm oil having exported 18 million tonnes of palm oil products in 2011. [ 116 ] In March 2019, the European Commission concluded that palm oil cultivation results in excessive deforestation and its use in transport fuel should be phased out by 2030.
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