The Nutritive Value of Palm Kernel Cake for Animal Feed

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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 small, although in general expeller PKC contains more oil (4%-8%) than solvent extracted PKC (1%-2%). In this paper, PKC refers to expeller palm kernel cake.

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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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