I HAVE long harboured a quiet ambition – not the trumpet-blowing kind of social media, but a stubborn wish to explain palm ...

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 ...

Researchers in Colombia are using deep learning models to predict the ripeness of oil palm fruit, helping to increase efficiency. Isis Bonet Cruz, a Cuban researcher and professor at the La ...

Figure 1: Oil palm is a major oil-crop. While oil acidification concerns all planters, it is more acute for smallholders who may not have access to efficient milling facilities close to their ...

Aniekpowe Idara Jacob, 32, has found value in oil palm processing, selling palm oil, palm kernel and other products derived from the oil palm value chain.The HND graduate of Business Administration, ...

PalmWatch, an online, open-source tool, is seeking to bring greater transparency to the global palm oil supply web, to better help consumers trace the impact of the commodity. A key hurdle to ...