El Nino will cause reduction of output 12% palm oil in Malaysia
El Nino will cause reduction of output 12% palm oil in Malaysia...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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. ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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