RI Needs Special Body to Tackle Rising Palm Oil Challenges
Palm oil, used in many products from cooking oil to cosmetics, is intensively scrutinized due to its high saturated fat content, which is detrimental to health, as well as deforestation and bad environmental practices seen in plantations acr
2014
November 17
The plam oil industry in Thailand
With refining, crude palm oil has many uses ranging from food applications to the fuel that runs our cars. Both worldwide and in Thailand,the palm oil industry has increased very rapidly in recent years. In this section, we will discuss the
2014
November 14
Palm oil production in the worldwide is keep increase
Palm oil production has increased worldwide during the past three decades. It doubled from 5 million tonnes in 1980 to 11 million tonnesin 1990 and doubled again to 21.8 million tons in 2000. By 2005, that number had increased to 34.4 milli
2014
November 14
Palm oil types
Red palm oil and white palm oil are the common palm oil types. All of them comes from the same source. Red or virgin palm oil is becoming the most popular among individual consumers. White palm oil is preferred for commercial use.
2014
November 10
Palm oil quality
The palm oil fruit bunches contains high lipase activity that increases free fatty acids and necessitates post-harvest inactivation by heat treatment of fruit bunches. Even before heat treatment，it requires costly measures to limit free fa
2014
November 10
Oil palm farm systems in Africa
The primary unit of production of the palm oil industry is the farm where the oil palm tree is cultivated to produce palm fruits. There are also wild groves of oil palm. The farm units are of different sizes and may be classified as small, m
2014
November 5
Early trading in palm products
International trade in palm oil began at the turn of the nineteenth century, while that of palm kernels developed only after 1832. Palm oil became the principal cargo for slave ships after abolition of the slave trade. The establishment of t
2014
November 5
Palm oil storage
Long term palm oil storage should be maintained at ambient temperature and heating should be completely turned off. If the oil becomes solid, extreme care should be taken during the initial heating to ensure that localized overheating or pre
2014
October 31
Palm oil extraction rate
The palm oil extraction rate is one measure that points to how well palm oil producers are managing their businesses. A higher palm oil extraction rate, which means the management is extracting more oil from the land under palm tree cultivat
2014
October 31
Palm oil waste in palm oil mill
The Palm Oil industry generates large quantity of wastes whose disposal is a challenging task, palm kernel shells, empty fruit bunches, palm oil mill effluent.
2014
October 29
Palm oil impact on environment
Although the rapid expansion of the palm oil industry in recent decades has generated considerable economic growth in tropical developing countries, this development has come at high cost to the environment.
2014
October 29
Palm oil
Originally from West Africa，palm now is cultivated around the world . It is one of the most cold-resistant plants. Currently，there are about 20 countries producing palm. And the main countries are Malaysia Indonesia and Nigeria.
2014
October 27