Asian Palm-Oil Planters Head to Africa to Meet World Demand
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Surveying miles of palm trees swaying softly in the tropical breeze in southwestern Ghana, Lim Peng Hor points proudly to a terraced slope of felled trunks that cuts through the lush landscape.
“Look at the way we have arranged the tree trunks: they keep the nutrients in the soil,” said Hor, general manager of Wilmar International Ltd.’s industrial palm-oil estate, the second-biggest palm-oil plantation in the West African nation. “That’s how you’re supposed to do it.”