Palm oil: The crop that cuts into southeastern Mexico’s jungles and mangroves

Mongabay
Jun 20, 2023, 11:11 am132 ptsTrending
“Thanks to the oil palm, I have money in my pocket.” He boasts it without modesty. He says his 11 planted hectares (27 acres), with 145 plants in each, give him good yields. If he didn’t have his palm plantation, he insists, “I’d be starving.” The man is a palm grower and merchant in Palenque,…

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