High-carbon peat among 1,500 hectares cleared for Indonesia's food estate

JAKARTA — When Indonesia embarked on its Mega Rice Project in the mid-1990s, it cleared vast swaths of forest for farmland, mostly in the peatlands of Borneo — only to abandon the scheme when it discovered that the carbon-rich peat soil was a poor host for rice cultivation. Fast-forward to the present day, and the […]

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