Indonesia lavishes $195m subsidy on palm biodiesel producers over smallholders

Mongabay
Jul 1, 2020, 5:37 am922 ptsInteresting
JAKARTA — Martamis says he’s worried about how he’ll pay for his daughter’s education once schools reopen. He’s an oil palm farmer from the village of Lubuk Mandarsah in Indonesia’s Jambi province, and before the COVID-19 pandemic he could expect to sell his palm fruit for 1,200 rupiah per kilogram,…

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