gave us got a living condition two shots are getting difficult for us some environmental activists call what happened here a land grab. one hundred twenty kilometers away farmers or he says say has not least his land he grows palm fruit himself along with other crops the oil palms bear fruit for twenty five years but since they can only be harvested three or four years after planting it s a long term investment. and i mean it s gimmicky i decided to go into oil production. but this will be my pension and we can harvest it until i die look at that so much up and. his family is large and they can harvest the fruit all year round and the parts of the plants that can t be used are made into natural fertilizer. these oil palms are organically grown out of necessity.
to be back at it but i don t use chemicals and besides i don t even have money to buy any i mean much so we rely purely on our own traditional methods. it today s stories say has a visitor it s mohamed come are a from the dutch palm oil company natural habitats in the group produces its own organic palm oil fruits but also buys from the local farmers. how long does it take you to grow a plant to show and then start the process and so we decided to go straight sort of from most who already have been to show and in our system develop the asking this ultimately. the company s oil mill is close by oil palms are high yield giving four times as much oil as some flowers perhaps. that makes it cheap and widely consumed almost every other product in supermarkets
they gathered all the available documents and carried out numerous interviews many of the deals reached in this region are linked to check entrepreneur dennis. he is now being investigated by state prosecutors the mega group companies have stripped thirteen thousand hectares of rain forest to make way for palm oil and cocoa plantations they were helped by corrupt local politicians who invalidated existing land rights affectively taking the land from its owners. we ve come to pull kulpa the capital of the region where we re meeting two farmers they agreed to speak to us in the protected environment of a hotel in two thousand and fourteen regional authorities appropriated their land now there are oil palms growing on it and. when i went to the police there was suddenly an attack they were trying to kill me. despite the intimidation tactics
a meeting to discuss the latest developments they re taking legal action to try to stop new palm oil plantations opening nearby. we never thought that we would have such problems with transnational companies. on the other side of the river large areas of forest have already been stripped and replaced with oil palms no one has access to the area we couldn t even film with a drone as soon as we got near the plantation the signal was disrupted village life has changed in the past residents live from fishing and hunting now the large animals have disappeared and there are fewer birds instead they ve had an invasion of mosquitoes more than ever before better additional way of life has become impossible. we live from the land not from hunting fishing from the resources that the jungle has to offer. an indigenous people without land just
organic palm oil fruits but also buys from the farmers. embarking on their plan to show him in the form of developing them so their use supports all see will mean it s a really really advantage us how long does it take you to grow plantation and then start the process and so we decided to go straight to the from us who already have been to show ends and in our system develop the asking this ultimately do p.c.r. used. the company s oil mill is close by oil palms are high yield giving four times as much oil as some flowers perhaps there. that makes it cheap and widely consumed almost every other product in supermarkets from cookies to face creams contains palm oil most of the royal press here is exported but the amount is just a fraction of that produced by large companies can the organic palm oil compete can