JAKARTA : Indonesia will boost efforts to ensure a scheme to replant palm oil to lift flagging yields meet a target of 180,000 hectares this year, an official said on Monday, as growers of the edible oil face increased scrutiny over sustainability.The world's biggest palm oil producer launched a subsidise
JAKARTA : Indonesia will boost efforts to ensure a scheme to replant palm oil to lift flagging yields meet a target of 180,000 hectares this year, an official said on Monday, as growers of the edible oil face increased scrutiny over sustainability.
The plans also come as the European Union, Indonesia's third-largest market for palm oil, has agreed a deforestation law that requires companies to produce a due diligence statement showing when and where commodities were produced and provide"verifiable" information proving were not grown on land deforested after 2020.
Between 2017 and now, only around 278,000 hectares of the crop had been replanted, said Musdhalifah Machmud, a senior official at the Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs. "The average yield of 2.5 tonnes per hectare must be increased to 6 tonnes to 8 tonnes per hectare," Musdhalifah told a meeting with government officials and palm oil planters.
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