Doctor Willie Smits, chairman and founder of the Masarang Foundation, has utilised the sugar palm tree (Arenga pinnata), a locally abundant species in North Sulawesi, to create a sustainable ...

These trees grow slowly during their early years but accelerate in growth later on. It takes over 20 years before a sugar palm tree produces sweet sap and fruit. For generations, the sugar palm has ...

But after 36 years scaling tree after tree ... Choeun earns about 100,000 riel ( $25) a day from selling sugar to local vendors. Palm trees also have other key roles in the daily life of ...