"He used to never stop talking," she recalls fondly. One evening in early 2019, Suresh had arrived home from the areca palm nut plantation where he worked complaining of a headache, and had ...

Plantations certified by the Roundtable on ... Oslisly scratches at the bank and pulls out domesticated palm nuts dating back two millennia. By around 1,500 years ago, those early farmers had ...

The fruit of the trees, which you’ll see as a reddish cluster of golf ball-sized nuts known as ... house workers in the plantations. Still today many of the homes are occupied by families who toil in ...

NAKHON SI THAMMARAT - Palm tree planters have ... oil industry and provide support farm materials such as fertiliser or seeds. The planters want a palm nut purchase system based on ripeness ...

traveled to an abandoned oil palm plantation near Thailand’s Phang Nga Bay and collected nut-cracking stones used by a resident troop of long-tailed macaques. Macaques bash open oil palm nuts by ...

Thailand's oil palm plantations span an estimated 5.09 million rai. The output of fresh palm nuts in 2019 is projected at 16.8 million, up 9% from 15.4 million tonnes in 2018. Whichai Phochanakij ...

Now the monkeys have begun using stones to crack open oil palm nuts further inland ... through Yao Noi Island into an abandoned oil palm plantation. They found what appeared to be stones that ...

“The establishment of new oil palm plantations, expansion and re-plantation should be ... Palm oil, locally known as katupol (“katu” meaning thorny and “pol” meaning palm nut), is in high demand over ...