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INDONESIA PALM COMMODITY

About palm

Oil palm (Elaeis) is an important industrial plants producing cookingoil, industrial oil, and fuel (biodiesel). Plantations generate huge profits, so many old plantation forest and converted into oil palm plantations. Indonesia is the world's second palm oil after Malaysia.


Type of oil palm

Oil palm is cultivated consists of two types: E. guineensis and E.oleifera. The first type is the first and largest cultivated people. E.oleifera is also now beginning to be cultivated to increase thediversity of genetic resources.

Dura is a palm whose fruits have a thick shell that is considered to shorten the processing machine age but usually large fruit bunchesand oil content per clusters ranging from 18%. Pisifera men do nothave shells but sterile female flowers, so very rarely produce fruit.Tenera is a cross between Dura and male parent Pisifera. This species is considered to complement the shortage of quality seeds for each parent with the nature of a thin shell of fruit but stillfertile female flowers. Some Tenera winning percentage of meatper piece up to 90% and oil content per clusters can reach 28%.



Results plants

Palm oil is used as raw materials for edible oils, margarine, soap,cosmetics, industrial steel, wire, radio, leather and pharmaceutical industries. Palm oil can be used for such a diverse designationbecause of its superior properties of oxidation resistance at high pressure, capable of dissolving chemicals that are not soluble byother solvents, have high power line and not cause irritation to thebody in the field of cosmetics.

The most popular for palm oil is processed from the fruit. Part fleshfruit produce crude palm oil is processed into cooking oil rawmaterials and various types of derivatives. The advantages of vegetable oil from palm is a low price, low cholesterol, and have ahigh carotene content. Palm oil is also processed into raw material for margarine.



Palm plantations in Indonesia




ProvinceLand area 
1
Bangka-Belitung
185.508 hectares
2
Banten
 14.894 hectares
3
Bengkulu
202.863 hectares
4
West Irianjaya
15.937 hectares
5
Jambi
 483.866 hectares
6
West Java
10.580 hectares
7
West Kalimantan
489.062 hectares
8
South Kalimantan
290.852 hectares
9
Central Kalimantan
1.114.320 hectares
10
East Kalimantan
 409.466 hectares
11
Riau Islands
 8.256 hectares
12
Lampung
152.511 hectares
13
Papua
19.818 hectares
14
Riau
1.911.110 hectares
15
West Sulawesi
94.319 hectares
16
South Sulawesi
15.944 hectares
17
Central Sulawesi
46.655 hectares
18
Southeast Sulawesi
21.033 hectares
19
West Sumatera 
327.647 hectares
20
South Sumatera
690.729 hectares
21
North Sumatera
1.017.570 hectares

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