Palm Oil Ivory Coast: Palm oil sustainable agriculture and production in Côte d'Ivoire, Africa   Oil palms, a native vegetation of West Africa, play a major role in reforestation initiatives in Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). Unlike palm oil production in Malaysia and Indonesia that is destroying habitats and endangering native species, such as the orangutan, the palm oil production process in Côte d'Ivoire employed by AgriSmart, Inc. uses a sustainable agriculture system called taungya (wiki), which is an intercropping between existing trees that optimizes yields, while furthering reforestation, and protecting the habitat of the native species of plants and animals.   Read more.. AgriSmart / About Côte d'Ivoire / Agriculture / Palm Oil (more)    

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