Oil palm farm lifts incomes of local growers

An oil palm plantation operated by the Chinese Julong Group in Indonesia's West Kalimantan province has brought more income to workers.

Most of the residents around the plantation in Sintang district work part time to harvest oil palm fruit. The rotating harvest in each of the plantation blocks allows them to earn extra money to supplement what they earn from their own farmland.

"They actually are farmers working their own land around the village. They were eager to make more money by harvesting the oil palm fruit," said Sugianto, chief of Sungai Maram village near the oil palm plantation in Sintang.