India: Oil palm individualizing the use of collective land in Manipur
- WRM
- 07 April 2026
The negative impacts of oil palm plantations promoted by India's national policy to increase national oil palm production are already being felt in three villages in the state of Manipur, where the area are targeted for the plantation. The turmoil it is creating at the plantation villages indicates a departure from the indigenous ways of land governance and relations to a system designed to cater to a corporate economic system.
