MAC Oil Palm plantation and timber logging, Tanintharyi
The Myanmar Auto Corporation (MAC) has received the largest oil palm concession in the Tanintharyi region, Myanmar. The concession covering 133,600 acres (ca. 54,000 ha) has caused deep conflicts with customary users over land grabbing, environmental change and deforestation.
Palm oil drive under review in Tanintharyi A failing scheme to expand oil palm plantations in Myanmar’s southern Tanintharyi Region is under review, as the government hopes to concentrate on increasing yield at existing estates instead of assigning new land to the controversial crop, the regional agriculture minister said.
Palm Oil in Myanmar: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of the
textual understanding of oil palm development in Myanmar. Results: GIS analysis revealed that the Tanintharyi Region, one of the most biodiverse regions in Myanmar, is highly suitable for oil palm growth. Next, vegetation indices revealed a progressive shift from smallholder farming, with little observable deforestation between
MSPP Oil Palm plantation in Tanintharyi region, Myanmar. Description: Oil palm monocultures have expanded rapidly in Myanmar over the last decades. In Tanintharyi region, more than 1.8 million acres (728,434 ha) of land have been awarded for oil palm plantations, often to companies with close ties to the military.
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A Malayasian worker selects palm oil fruit for sorting. Myanmar has its own palm oil plantations in Tanintharyi Region. Photo: AFP
The researchers found that oil palm plantations with mature trees cover about 75,000 hectares (185,000 acres) of the Tanintharyi region.
Myanmar’s palm oil industry heads for a sustainable path
Launched at Myanmar’s first workshop on the development of a sustainable plantation sector on 28 June, 2014, a study by Fauna & Flora International (FFI) shows that most biodiversity-rich forests in Myanmar’s Tanintharyi region are located inland along the Myanmar-Thai border, while most land suitable for palm oil cultivation is located along the coast, where forests are already too degraded to support threatened species.
There are a total 44 oil palm plantation companies in Myanmar, 12 of these were visited representing the largest plantations in terms of area planted. These plantations varied greatly in size, productivity, and in standards of sustainable production.
Myanmar risks losing forests to oil palm, but there’s time
The researchers found that oil palm plantations with mature trees cover about 75,000 hectares (185,000 acres) of the Tanintharyi region.
In 2024, oil palm plantations (mature oil palm trees >4 years) covered approximately 75 kha (69–81 kha range at 95% confidence) of the Tanintharyi region (Table 2).
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The researchers found that oil palm plantations with mature trees cover about 75,000 hectares (185,000 acres) of the Tanintharyi region. Within the concessions, images analysed for the study also revealed the presence of rubber plantations as well as landscape designated as “other trees” (which in the study includes both forests and other tree crops, such as betel and cashew), shrub, bare land, and water bodies.
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Palm Oil in Myanmar: A Spatiotemporal Analysis of the
textual understanding of oil palm development in Myanmar. Results: GIS analysis revealed that the Tanintharyi Region, one of the most biodiverse regions in Myanmar, is highly suitable for oil palm growth. Next, vegetation indices revealed a progressive shift from smallholder farming, with little observable deforestation between
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Fauna & Flora International calls for oil palm moratorium
In 1999, Myanmar authorities pushed for rapid expansion of the country’s oil palm industry in the Tanintharyi Region, ostensibly to reduce the country’s reliance on imports, improve rural infrastructure and attract foreign investment.
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Myanmar's Palm Oil Industry: Challenges and Way Forward
Myanmar imports refined palm olein, which is the liquid form of palm kernel oil after a process called fractionation, and is used for cooking and frying. In Year 2012 Myanmar imported 400,000 tonnes of palm Oil and which has grown to 485,000 tonnes in 2013.
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Indigenous Peoples' rights under threat from oil palm
Indigenous Peoples' rights under threat from oil palm plantations in Tanintharyi, Myanmar (English) ... large areas of forest and farmland in Tanintharyi Region in southern Myanmar are being given ...
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LAND SUITABILITY FOR OIL PALM IN SOUTHERN MYANMAR
In Myanmar, Tanintharyi Region is the focus of Myanmar’s growing palm oil industry. The Region has 2.5 million hectares of largely intact unique Sundaic lowland forest with species, such as Gurney’s Pitta Pitta gurneyi , found nowhere else in the world.
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LAND SUITABILITY FOR OIL PALM IN SOUTHERN MYANMAR
In Myanmar, Tanintharyi Region is the focus of Myanmar’s growing palm oil industry. The Region has 2.5 million hectares of largely intact unique Sundaic lowland forest with species, such as Gurney’s Pitta Pitta gurneyi , found nowhere else in the world.
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Fauna & Flora International calls for oil palm moratorium
In 1999, Myanmar authorities pushed for rapid expansion of the country’s oil palm industry in the Tanintharyi Region, ostensibly to reduce the country’s reliance on imports, improve rural infrastructure and attract foreign investment.
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Fauna & Flora International calls for oil palm moratorium
Oil palm fruit. Credit: FFI Myanmar. Tanintharyi Region in southern Myanmar is home to the last significant area of Sundaic rainforest on the Thai peninsula, a unique form of transitional rainforest located between the evergreen tropical rainforest of Peninsula Malaysia and the monsoon forests to the north.
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Oil palm plantation in South Myanmar conflict zone wreaks
A report released by a coalition of local and international NGOs this month examines the negative impacts of oil palm plantations in south Myanmar conflict zones, using the controversial Myanmar Stark Prestige Plantation (MSPP) project in Tanintharyi as a case study. Oil palm companies have been awarded more than 1.8 million acres of concessions in the area and have also been allowed to cut ...
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Myanmar Communities Fight Back Against Palm Oil Impact
In 2011, MSPP was granted a permit by the Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) to establish a 38,000-acre, $36.75 million oil palm project in Tanintharyi Township, Myeik District, Tanintharyi region of south-eastern Myanmar. The Karen National Union (KNU) administers this area as Ler Muh Lah Township, Mergui-Tavoy District.
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Government plans to take back 5 approved palm oil
The companies that received approval for palm oil plantation projects are located in Myeik District and Kawthaung District in Tanintharyi Region. There are two Malaysian companies, one Thai company, one Korean company and one local company. Among them Myanmar Auto Corporation got the biggest area for palm oil plantation.
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Indigenous Peoples' rights under threat from oil palm
Indigenous Peoples' rights under threat from oil palm plantations in Tanintharyi, Myanmar (Burmese) ... in Tanintharyi Region in southern Myanmar are being given away as concessions for the ...
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A bird on the brink | Frontier Myanmar
The large-scale destruction of lowland forest, the bird’s prime habitat, began after 1999 when the junta set a target of establishing 202,343 hectares, later extended to 283,280ha, of oil palm plantations in Tanintharyi by 2030.
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Fauna & Flora International calls for oil palm moratorium
Oil palm fruit. Credit: FFI Myanmar. Tanintharyi Region in southern Myanmar is home to the last significant area of Sundaic rainforest on the Thai peninsula, a unique form of transitional rainforest located between the evergreen tropical rainforest of Peninsula Malaysia and the monsoon forests to the north.
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Oil palm plantation in South Myanmar conflict zone wreaks
A report released by a coalition of local and international NGOs this month examines the negative impacts of oil palm plantations in south Myanmar conflict zones, using the controversial Myanmar Stark Prestige Plantation (MSPP) project in Tanintharyi as a case study. Oil palm companies have been awarded more than 1.8 million acres of concessions in the area and have also been allowed to cut ...
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Dispossessed: the human toll of Myanmar's land crisis
In 2011, the improbably named Myanmar Auto Corporation, a joint venture between South Korean and Nigeria companies, received approval from the Myanmar Investment Commission to establish an oil palm plantation over 133,600 acres (54,066 hectares) in Bokpyin Township of Tanintharyi Region in the country’s far south.
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Government plans to take back 5 approved palm oil
The companies that received approval for palm oil plantation projects are located in Myeik District and Kawthaung District in Tanintharyi Region. There are two Malaysian companies, one Thai company, one Korean company and one local company. Among them Myanmar Auto Corporation got the biggest area for palm oil plantation.
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Myanmar Project | Agrinexus International
Since 2014, AgriNexus has been actively engaged in several plantation management projects in Myanmar. AgriNexus stepped-up direct involvement in the industry in 2014 by taking over full management of an Oil Palm Plantation Project in Tanintharyi, Myanmar.
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Tanintharyi villagers demand end to palm-oil project
Tanintharyi villagers demand end to palm-oil project May 19, 2024 by Thiha Tanintharyi mountain villagers have demanded that the Myanmar Stark Prestige Plantation Company (MSPP) suspend its plans to cut down their forests and seize their land to open palm-oil plantations.
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These Burmese Palm Oil Workers Say They're Trapped
But even after working for nearly 13 years on a palm oil plantation in southern Myanmar, he hasn’t been able to make enough money to leave. In 2004, Zaw Myo Htike, a thin, muscular, 20-year-old Burmese man, was living in Wakema township, the heart of Myanmar’s agriculturally rich Irrawaddy Delta.
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