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Indonesia looks to Papua to expand palm oil plantations: official

Agence France-Presse: The government of Indonesia, the world's largest palm oil producer, is now looking at its vast easternmost provinces in Papua to expand its palm oil plantations, a senior official said Wednesday. "After Sumatra and Kalimantan became too dense for new palm oil plantations, the only land available is in Papua," the agriculture ministry's Director General for Plantations, Achmad Manggabarani, said on the margin of a three-day international conference on the commodity ... Read »
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