Oil Palm
The oil palm is the world’s most important oil crop producing 24.9% of total vegetable oils and fats surpassing soybean at 23.9% (Mielke, http://www.oil world.bz, 31 March 2007). It produces two types of oil from its fruits, mesocarp oil and kernel oil known as crude palm oil (CPO) and palm kerne...
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| description | The oil palm is the world’s most important oil crop producing 24.9% of total
vegetable oils and fats surpassing soybean at 23.9% (Mielke, http://www.oil
world.bz, 31 March 2007). It produces two types of oil from its fruits, mesocarp
oil and kernel oil known as crude palm oil (CPO) and palm kernel oil
(PKO), respectively, in international trade. Total world production of CPO
stands at about 38 million tons worth around US$ 20 billion. The oils are
produced from some 13 million ha of plantations in the humid tropical
countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America: Indonesia (5.3 million ha),
Malaysia (4.2 million ha), Papua New Guinea, Colombia, Ivory Coast,
Nigeria and Thailand with the first two countries having the bulk of the
plantings. Palm oil is the largest internationally traded vegetable oil with its
main markets in China, European Union, Pakistan, India, Japan and Bangladesh.
Palm oil is mainly used in food (80%), e.g. as cooking oil, margarine,
vanaspati or vegetable ghee and shortenings, and the remaining 20% are used
as oleochemicals replacing mineral oil to feed the detergents, cosmetics,
pharmaceutical/nutraceutical, plastics and lubricants industries. With the
recent high rise in petroleum prices and that the deadline for meeting the
requirements of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in terms of ‘green’ or
renewable energy substitution is approaching, there has been a tremendous
demand for palm oil as a source of biofuel (biodiesel). Also, responding to
consumer health and environmental concerns, secondary and by-products
from the palm oil industry have spawned new industries, e.g. vitamins A and
E and other antioxidant health supplements from the oil, animal feed and
organic fertilizers from the kernel, and sludge cakes and wastes from oil
extraction mills have served as value additions. |
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| spelling | intimal-3092016-06-09T09:01:26Z http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/309/ Oil Palm Soh, Aik Chin Wong, Choo Kien Ho, Yuk Wah Choong, Chieh Wean SB Plant culture The oil palm is the world’s most important oil crop producing 24.9% of total vegetable oils and fats surpassing soybean at 23.9% (Mielke, http://www.oil world.bz, 31 March 2007). It produces two types of oil from its fruits, mesocarp oil and kernel oil known as crude palm oil (CPO) and palm kernel oil (PKO), respectively, in international trade. Total world production of CPO stands at about 38 million tons worth around US$ 20 billion. The oils are produced from some 13 million ha of plantations in the humid tropical countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America: Indonesia (5.3 million ha), Malaysia (4.2 million ha), Papua New Guinea, Colombia, Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Thailand with the first two countries having the bulk of the plantings. Palm oil is the largest internationally traded vegetable oil with its main markets in China, European Union, Pakistan, India, Japan and Bangladesh. Palm oil is mainly used in food (80%), e.g. as cooking oil, margarine, vanaspati or vegetable ghee and shortenings, and the remaining 20% are used as oleochemicals replacing mineral oil to feed the detergents, cosmetics, pharmaceutical/nutraceutical, plastics and lubricants industries. With the recent high rise in petroleum prices and that the deadline for meeting the requirements of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety in terms of ‘green’ or renewable energy substitution is approaching, there has been a tremendous demand for palm oil as a source of biofuel (biodiesel). Also, responding to consumer health and environmental concerns, secondary and by-products from the palm oil industry have spawned new industries, e.g. vitamins A and E and other antioxidant health supplements from the oil, animal feed and organic fertilizers from the kernel, and sludge cakes and wastes from oil extraction mills have served as value additions. Springer Science 2009 Book Section PeerReviewed text en http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/309/1/9.pdf Soh, Aik Chin and Wong, Choo Kien and Ho, Yuk Wah and Choong, Chieh Wean (2009) Oil Palm. In: Handbook of Plant Breeding. Springer Science, pp. 333-367. ISBN 978-0-387-77594-4 10.1007/978-0-387-77594-4_11 |
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