Oil-palm trees, as they're called, are grown primarily in Indonesia and Malaysia, and that's where the problems begin. To create oil-palm farms, the two states have cleared millions of acres of tropical forest. In all of the 1980s, Indonesia cleared 674,000 acres, but by 2009 the total had reached 18 million.
Mercer County, Pennsylvania (PA) County population in 2014: 114,884 (56% urban, 44% rural); it was 120,293 in 2000. County owner-occupied with a mortgage or a loan houses and condos in 2010: 19,319. County owner-occupied free and clear houses and condos in 2010: 14,619. County owner-occupied houses and condos in 2000: 35,613.
MERCERSBURG BOROUGH was incorporated in 1831 with a population of 700. The Borough Hall sits on a lot that was the site of the first Town Jail and an early band shell. F. Keagy built Borough Hall in 1904 for $4,304.38; G. Seylor added the clock Tower in 1909 for $375.00. The south end housed the Eclipse Fire Engine until 1924 and the Police Department since the late 1920's.