Preparing for the future: Workers plant oil palm seedlings at a palm plantation in Kapuas Hulu, West Kalimantan. (Antara/Andre) |
Indonesia
has become the world’s biggest palm oil producer on the back of higher
production of locally certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO), an international
multi-stakeholder certification body says.
The top
place is also attributable to the rising number of local palm oil producers
joining in the sustainable certification scheme, says the Roundtable on
Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) Indonesia.
As of the
first quarter of this year, local growers generated around 2.71 million tons of
CSPO, overtaking Malaysia — traditionally the largest CSPO producer — which
generated 2.69 million tons, RSPO Indonesia director, Desi Kusumadewi, said on
Thursday.
The
increase in total Indonesian output derived partly from PT Inti Indosawit Subur
in Buatan, Riau, which produced a total of 54,282 tons of certified RSPO.
In 2011,
the country's output was 2.3 million tons.
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