Deal #2371

The government transferred the land to the company with a whole host of unresolved issues. Private land which is leased was previously known as Salin Malen Oil Palm Estate. Land was previously used for family farming and tree-crop plantation

SOCFIN transforming a traditional bush fallow agricultural system into a large-scale industrial palm oil monoculture. This has had serious impacts on the biodiversity of fauna and flora in the chiefdom, leading to a drastic decline in mammal species and medicinal plants in particular.