Palm oil

Soil Degradation in Nigeria Introduction Nigeria is a country in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north. Nigeria is in the tropical zone of Africa (between latitude 4 and 14 degrees N, and longitude 2 and 14 degrees E), with a vast area of savanna vegetation in the northern part. The climate is damp, very humid and highly influenced by the combined effects of the ocean, desert, humidity, temperature, and mainly the variation that exist in the

that can create value to shareholders. (KSBM, 2016) Previously, Keck Seng is a small trading business in Singapore and subsequently expanded and invested in Malaysia by bought few piece of land in Masai, Johor and ventured into rubber planting and oil palm cultivation. The rubber plantation in year 1959 was the beginning of Keck Seng Malaysia and diversified their business into various categories. KSBM is part of Keck Seng Group that operated its business into several segments include manufacturing

years orangutans have lost nearly 80% of their natural habitat largely due to deforestation. Between the years of 1999 and 2006 roughly 55% of that deforestation was due to the expansion of the palm oil industry. Furthermore, Indonesia and Malaysia combined account for nearly 87% of the global output of palm oil with Indonesia generating about 18.7 and Malaysia 17.4 million tons a year. When considering these statistics, it raises questions about why this industry is seemingly more relevant than conserving

its home in palms trees mainly in Indonesia and Malaysia. In an effort to harvest palm oil, which is used mainly in toiletries and baked goods, we are causing damage to the orangutan’s natural habitat. The process by which we gather palm oil destroys the environment, hurts the orangutans health, and ultimately puts the orangutan into extinction. When will we stop these horrible actions and protect the orangutans in the twenty first century?

can produce palm oil with little to no biodiversity loss. As mentioned above, oil palm companies harvest in the forest instead of on the grasslands because they sell the timber they clear cut to hold them over until the oil palm trees begin to grow. This, however, can be fixed if the government provided subsidies for companies to develop on the grasslands instead of in the forest. These subsidies could hold the oil palm producers over until it was time for them to harvest the oil palm trees. Providing

of Palm Tree Plantation. It was established on September 16th, 1986 in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. This company was established in regard to a governmental project at that time called PIR-Transmigrasi; its aim was to cultivate economy of remote area with a system of sharing land which 20% would go to the company and 80% for the community. Bintang Harapan Desa is built with the strong foundation of 3 vision and mission: To participate and to help government in providing bio diesel through palm tree

destroyed. Palm oil is a vegetable oil high in saturated fats extracted from the palm fruit, the palm tree is a native plant to West Africa then was imported into South East Asia in the mid-19th century. It is one of the most popular edible oils and is being used in approximately 50% of products currently in the supermarkets of Australia including cosmetics, toiletries and food. Malaysia and Indonesia grows around 87% of palm oil while Australia imports about 130,000 tonnes of palm oil every year

shield us from rising and dropping temperatures, and protect the soil from erosion. Half of Indonesia contains rainforests, making it a big contributor to climate change. Oil palm trees are the main reason for the deforestation occurring, due to them containing a nut where palm oil is extracted. Steering away from the use of palm oil, using other alternatives to firewood, and the most obvious is to plant more trees. The destruction of the rainforest in Indonesia does climate change no favors. Indonesia

loved by children, but also by grown-ups as a convenient snack. Every jar of Nutella starts with 56 roasted hazelnuts, and apparently, cancer-causing palm oil. Nutella has in its composition Sugar, Palm oil, Hazelnut, Skimmed Milk and Cocoa solids. The European Food and Safety Administration (EFSA) Communicated in a study in May, 2016 that Palm Oil, one of Nutella’s main Ingredient, generated more of a potentially carcinogenic contaminant when processed a at higher temperatures of over 200ºC. On

headquarters in Singapore, founded in the year 1991.Today it is Asia’s leading agribusiness group and ranked amongst the largest listed companies by market capitalisation on the Singapore Exchange. Wilmar’s business activities include oil palm cultivation, oilseed crushing, edible oil refining, sugar milling and refining, specialty fat, oleochemical, biodiesel, fertiliser manufacturing and grain processing. The core of Wilmar’s strategy is a resilient integrated agribusiness model that encompasses the entire