MalaysiaA worker harvests palm fruit on a plantation in Sarawak, one of two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo. These mature trees are about 25 years old, which means they will soon be cut ...

What is bambangan? Essentially a member of the mango family, this native Borneo fruit takes about 10 to 15 years to fruit and is unlike the soft, pulpy Thai mangoes many Malaysians have come to love.

Sumatra is more fertile than Borneo, where ancient, weathered soil lacks plant nutrients, and many forests see the boom-and-bust cycles of masting fruit trees, leading to periods of low food ...

For most of its history Borneo was scarcely populated by humans ... subsistence rice farming, and fruit gardens. When a large agricultural firm enters an area, some community members are often ...