Supply and Disappearance: A Review

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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. Apart from the rest, the higher growth in production was also the result of the oil palm area that had undergone replanting coming into harvest. The yield of palm oil per hectare increased from 3.59 in 2002 to 3.74 t ha-1 in 2003.

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The Nutritive Value of Palm Kernel Cake for Animal Feed

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 […]

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Prices of Selected Oils and Fats in 2003 and 2004

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% […]

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