tailand whorshop oil palm machine in ethiopia

                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
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  • Do small farmers own oil palms in Thailand?
  • Small farmers owning less than fifty hectares manage approximately 70% of the total area planted with oil palm and they have a similar share in total FFB production. Smallholder schemes such as the Nucleus Estate Schemes (NES) in Indonesia or FELDA in Malaysia do not exist in Thailand.
  • Does Thai palm oil production have a positive or negative impact?
  • However, the structure of the Thai palm oil industry reveals a different picture to that of the main palm oil producing countries, leading to the conclusion that the impacts of palm oil production, whether positive or negative, cannot be generalised and must instead be examined and assessed as locally specific outcomes.
  • How do farmers interact with oil palm crushing mills?
  • In most cases farmers act completely independently from the oil palm crushing mills and are not linked to mills by contracts or any other formal arrangements. In a few cases, farmer cooperatives have even managed to establish their own cooperative mill with government support.
  • How big are oil palm estates in Thailand?
  • The average size of land holdings of companies planting oil palm compared to the size of land of independent farmers was 796 ha for companies and 3.89 ha for farmers (including cooperatives and personally owned estates) in 2007.5 These statistics reveal that very large estates are rather rare in Thailand.