Anti Palm oil campaign would have little impact on Indonesian and Malaysian exporters

Anti Palm oil campaign which is spearheaded by European countries and few NGOs demanding curb on Palm oil plantation as these plantation are putting natural forest and species into danger .

Palm oil has become major cooking oil for countries like China and India which are the largest importers of Palm oil . Pro -palm oil groups highlight that palm oil popularity has put other oil such as rape seed oil and soya bean oil in problem .
Pro -palm oil group also highlights that countries growing palm oil has helped alleviating poverty from their region . Similar efforts are done to popularise palm cultivation in countries like Africa , Brazil ,Papua New Guinea, Laos .

Palm oil cultivation covers less of land ,around 0.26 hectare for a ton of oil where as soyabean , rape seed and sunflower requires 2.2, 1.5 and 2.o hectares respectively for similar amount of oil .

Both Indonesia and Malaysia has kept 25% and 55% of land respectively for forest conservation .

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