Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB)
Malaysia imported well over 2 million tonnes per annum of energy feed as corn in the last three years and another 1 million tonnes of protein supplement, mainly soyabean and fish meal. Well over 200 000 t of crude palm oil (CPO) were used in livestock feed. These feeds are essential items in the formulation […]
Compound feed is a mixture of feed ingredients obtained from various sources. A feed ingredient is only a constituent of a compound feed and if used as the sole ration fed, has to be enriched further. The composition of a compound feed is determined by three main criteria, i.e. price, nutritional composition and the animal […]
Palm oil is second only to soyabean oil in world production of vegetable oils, and makes up more than half of total oil exports (Gunstone, 2003). Palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD), a by-product of palm oil refining, makes up approximately 5% of the 28 million tonnes of palm oil expected to be produced in 2004. […]
In Malaysia, most of the PKC produced are from expeller extraction. Though solvent extraction is also used in the extraction of palm kernel oil but the process is costly and screw press extraction (expeller) is the rule in many palm oil processing plants. The difference in the quality of expeller PKC and solvent extracted is […]
Malaysia’s palm oil production increased from 11.909 million tonnes in 2002 to 13.35 million tonnes in 2003, i.e. by about 12.14% (Table 1). This was quite a significant compared to the increase in 2002 over 2001 where the growth was by 0.89% indicating that the palms had rested sufficiently low after four years of production. […]
Some oils and fats improved in their prices from 2001 until 2003 (Figure 1). Among them cottonseed oil was the leader as its price increased by more than 100% from USD 414 t-1 in 2001 to USD 895 t-1 in 2003 (Table 1). The increases in palm olein and soyabean oil prices were about 55% […]