Cargill Smallholders Receive European ISS-EU Certification for Supply of Sustainable Biofuels
In South Sumatra, Indonesia yesterday, the smallholders of Cargill’s PT Hindoli palm oil plantation became the first ever to be certified according to the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) standards of the European Union.
This means Cargill is able to provide its customers with palm oil working toward compliance with the European Renewable Energy Directive. The ISCC-EU certified smallholders are members of the Mukti Jaya smallholder cooperative and participants in PT Hindoli’s plasma scheme.
Their cooperative was the first of 17 smallholder cooperatives in PT Hindoli to be certified. PT Hindoli’s plasma scheme stems from the Indonesian government’s transmigration program in the 1980s, where Indonesians were relocated from densely populated areas in Java to plantation areas in Sumatra and Kalimantan. They were trained to become smallholders.
“We congratulate our smallholders in PT Hindoli on their successful certification by the ISCC. This certification, the latest in a series of international endorsements of our sustainable practices, is tangible proof of the successful partnership with our smallholders in PT Hindoli,” said John Hartmann, Chief Operating Officer, Cargill Tropical Palm Holdings.
Category: Fuels
