• Agriculture

    OBG investigates the key pressures and developments affecting local agriculture, particularly where a country is dependent on plantations or forestry to maintain GNP. It also highlights the output trends and technological advances in areas such as irrigation techniques and land reclamation.
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Following the well-established path towards rapid economic development, Indonesia has long relied on selling its vast reserves of natural resources. At the same time, more markets have been eager to snap up raw materials such as crude palm oil (CPO), cocoa, rubber and other products to fuel their manufacturing. This trajectory has shown signs of...

How will new export duties on crude palm oil (CPO) and its derivative products affect the industry?

As 2012 gets underway, Sabah’s plantation sector players have been keeping a wary eye on both the weather and economic forecasts, as external factors threaten to challenge palm oil production. Meanwhile, the state’s rubber plantations await a major replanting campaign this year as part of national plans for commodities investment.
As the agriculture sector prepares for winter, a major export deal with China and improvements in trade relations with Russia are heating up prospects for Mongolia’s meat industry.

Chapter | Plantations & Agriculture from The Report: Indonesia 2012

Long a major exporter of raw natural resources, including agricultural products, Indonesia is looking to maintain its strengths in this sector while expanding downstream industries to fuel domestic industry. The country imports over 20m tonnes of food annually, but major investment plans are designed to mitigate the need for imports by boosting domestic output. Indonesia’s strengths are...

An archipelago of over 17,500 islands, Indonesia is today the world’s fourth-largest country by population, at 245m. The astonishing diversity of ethnicities and cultures comes together in a democratic framework under the pancasila, or “five principles”: nationalism, humanitarianism, representative democracy, social welfare and monotheism

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