Tag: plantation fires
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Would palm-oil estates in South Sumatra pay a firm to keep their fire pumps ready?
When officials inspect South Sumatra’s palm-oil estates for fire readiness, they leave a to-do list: maintain the reservoirs, install bigger pumps, fix the firefighting gear. A regional service paid around Rp48 million a year to finish that list, estate after estate, could turn it into a business.