A-LevelBiologyBiodiversity and conservationFeb/Mar 2017Paper 4 Q811 Marks
Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil that comes from the fruit of oil palm trees. • Palm oil is cheap. • It is the world's most widely used vegetable oil. • The yield of oil per hectare from oil palm trees is thirty times more than that of oil from maize. • Around 85% of the world's palm oil is now produced in Indonesia. Table 8.1 shows the change in forest cover on the three main Indonesian islands between 2000 and 2010. [Table 8.1]
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