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
11/10
Traditional method of palm kernel extraction
Palm kernel extraction is a specialised operation undertaken by a completely different set of processors. They are usually better organized as a group and are not as dispersed as palm oil processors. The kernel processors have to go around t...
2015
01/06
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
11/05
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
11/05
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
10/31
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
10/31
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
10/29
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
10/29
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