oil palm

Example Sentences

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To get by, some producers are diversifying by planting oil palms or hevea trees used to make rubber, which, unlike cocoa's seasonal harvest, produce 11 months of the year.

From Barron's

Wong recalls how farmers cut down durian trees to make room for oil palms, the country's main cash crop, during an economic downturn in the 1990s.

From BBC

Some hang out under humongous oil palm trees.

From Literature

It even exceeds the rate of deforestation due to oil palm production, at least in relative terms, in other parts of the world.

From Science Daily

Southeast Asia's tropical forests are renowned for their biodiversity, but at the same time face significant threats from the expansion of oil palm plantations.

From Science Daily