The question is incomplete, the complete question is; Palm oil, an edible vegetable oil used in processing packaged food products, is obtained from the fruit of the oil palm tree, grown only in the tropics. Which of the following explains how global
demand for palm oil has proved beneficial and detrimental for countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia?
Palm oil exports provided substantial corporate profits, but increased government subsidies to palm oil farmers led to increased overty in the two countries.
Palm oil exports provided substantial corporate profits, but the process led to high rates of unemployment for farmworkers at harvest time.
C) Palm oil exports provided substantial corporate profits, but the growth in the industry resulted in heavy deforestation in both countries.
Palm oil exports provided increased income to the governments of Indonesia and Malaysia, but the number of farmers employed on palm oil plantations decreased in the two
countries
E) Palm oil exports aided in increasing the wealth of the two countries but also increased the diversity of plants in the two countries.
Answer:
C) Palm oil exports provided substantial corporate profits, but the growth in the industry resulted in heavy deforestation in both countries.
Explanation:
Oil palm, includes the palm species native to Africa, Elaeis guineensis, and the species native to South and Central America, Elaeis oleifera. Both species are perennial tropical trees in the family Arecaceae which are grown for their oil which is used in cooking and in industry(Plant village).
The production of palm oil has led to deforestation both in Indonesia and Malaysia. Large expanse of forest lands had to be cleared in order to carve out enough land mass for oil palm plantations.
Obviously, the growth of the oil palm industry led to some corporate benefits at the cost of the loss of habitat of several forest species.
