Indonesia aims to replant 540,000 ha of smallholder palm plantation by 2024

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JAKARTA, May 30 (Reuters): Indonesia aims to accelerate its palm oil replanting programme to double the area it covered between 2017 and 2022 in an effort to maintain production, a government official said on Tuesday.

The world's biggest palm oil producer launched a subsidised palm oil replanting programme for smallholders in 2017 to boost output without clearing more forested land and to help fend off attacks on the sustainability of the crop.