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… most heavily traded edible oil in the world. Golden Agri Resources (GAR) has been in the forefront of this palm oil boom in Indonesia. Founded in 1996 by the influential Widjaja … oil value chain, from growing seedlings and managing over 450,000 hectares of plantation lands to running extraction and refining mills and marketing its own brand of cooking oil. … oil companies. On one hand some were resistant to letting plantations set aside landforconservation, since they wanted to maximize opportunities for small farmers. On the other …
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