Overview of the Oil Palm


Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis, Jacq) is one of the vegetable oil producing plants are veryimportant. According to research, the origin of oil palm plantations is Africa, namelyNigeria in West Africa region. The spread of oil palm trees from the area of ​​origin is notdirectly related to the slave trade from Africa from the Middle Ages. After Columbusdiscovered America and the opening of a trip to Asia.
Oil palm plantations spread into new areas of business enterprises by the Portuguese,Spanish, English and Dutch. Today palm oil crops cultivated in many tropical countries, especially the region that lies between latitudes 100 north and 100 south latitude.

Region, there are some major producing countries such as palm oil

MalaysiaIndonesia,
 ThailandPapua New Guineathe PRC and India in Asia, Ivory Coast, GhanaCameroon and Nigeriain Africa and some South American countrieslike ColumbiaCostarikaHondoras and Equador.
 Palm oil is an important source ofvegetable oil in addition to palm oilbeans, peas, corn, sunflower, olive and so onThe use of palm oil has been started since the XV century and its marketing to Europestarted in the 1800sPalm oil is used comes from the flesh of the fruit (mesocrap) and palm kernel (kernel, endosperm)

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