Palm oil, an edible vegetable oil used in processing packaged food products, is obtained from the fruit of the oilpalm tree, grown only in the tropics. Which of the following explains how global demand for palm oil has provedbeneficial and detrimental for countries such as Indonesia and Malaysia?
(A) Palm oil exports provided substantial corporate profits, but increased government subsidies to palm oilfarmers led to increased poverty in the two countries.
(B) Palm oil exports provided substantial corporate profits, but the process led to high rates of unemployment forfarmworkers at harvest time.
(C) Palm oil exports provided substantial corporate profits, but the growth in the industry resulted in heavydeforestation in both countries.
(D) Palm oil exports provided increased income to the governments of Indonesia and Malaysia, but the numberof farmers employed on palm oil plantations decreased in the two countries.
(E) Palm oil exports aided in increasing the wealth of the two countries but also increased the diversity of plantsin the two countries.
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