Palm Oil Industry Essay

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Indonesia is a tropical country with high rainfall and has 18.110 islands, with an area of 1.890.754 ha, that extends 5110 km west to east and 1888 km north to south. This geographical conditions makes Indonesia great potential as a producer of agricultural products. Indonesia is the largest produser of palm oil in the world, in 2014 around 31 million tons of CPO has been produced from11 million ha.Palm oil plant in Indoneia spread mostly on Sumatera, Kalimantan and Sulawesi islands. this results in increased income communities and increase the value of Indonesian export.
Palm oil industry is one of the strategic industry in tropical countries, such as Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. Palm oil is used in a wide variety of food products such as cooking oil, shortenings, and margarine, whereas PKO is a raw material in the production of non-food products including soaps, detergents, toiletries, cosmetics, and candles. This industry is growing fast in accordance with the increasing demand of oil for food or energy. This large production scale influence the Indonesian economic growth. In the future, these industries will support national economic growth. Average production of palm empty fruit bunches oil is between 22 % to 24 % of the total weight of fresh fruit bunches processed in palm oil mills.
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One of the solutions is by utilization of the wastes, as at the same time it also could increase the positive impacts of palm oil fruit industry. The potential availability and economics of utilization of agricultural residues is more interesting despite of their limitations1). EFB has considerable potential to be utilized in some fields, including as organic fertilizer, fodder, brick-making, mat-making raw materials and media for the growth of fungi and plants. EFB has also lignocellulose as one of its contents which is suitable to be used as raw material for paper

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