Category: Oil-palm

Oil palms are cultivated in the regions where they grow well and where there are oil mills. Palm oil production has boomed over the last decades driven by increasing use as frying oil, as an ingredient in processed food and non-edible products (detergents and cosmetics), and more recently in biodiesel production.  To enhance the performance and growth, the oil palm needs a region. 1. Where it is hot all the year round The oil palm grows well where it is hot all the year round: between 25 and 28 degrees…

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In the olden day’s traditional farming method, nobody cultivates oil palms; People simply pick the clusters of fruit from the oil palms that grow in the forest. But these oil palms produce little oil. The oil is extracted by traditional methods, and a lot of oil is left in the pulp and the kernel but nowadays oil palms are grown on modem plantations. These contain selected oil palms with big yields, The clusters of fruit are sold to mills which extract all the oil from the pulp and the kernels.…

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An oil palm begins to produce 3 or 4 years after it has been planted. If proper care is not taken of the seeds, they will germinate only after several years meanwhile At the research stations, the seeds are kept in a room where it is always very hot, This makes the seeds germinate sooner, after 90 to 100 days. Each seed germinated is planted in a small plastic container. A new leaf grows every month, the young seedling stays in the container for 4 to 5 months. When you…

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