Palm Fruits

Palm fruit contains two types of oil: palm oil, which comes from the mesocarp or fleshy part of the fruit, and palm kernel oil, which comes from the seed in the fruit. Both have significant commercial value.

Palm Fruits

High Yielding Oil Palm

Oil palm is the most productive vegetable oil crop, yielding more oil per hectare than any other major oilseed commodity. For example, the oil yield on a per unit area basis from properly maintained oil palms is significant greater than oil yields from commercially grown rapeseed and soy. 

In terms of energy balance it takes less sunlight to produce a unit of oil. However, on the basis of oil yield per man-day it is not as competitive because of the labor intensive plantation management and harvesting of the fruit. This is less an issue in areas of Indonesia where labor is more readily available. Given the current situation, these characteristics appear to favor oil palm as a renewable energy source for the near future, until cellulosic technologies advance to an operation level.

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Ditulis oleh William Perkasa pada tanggal Tuesday, March 25, 2008