palm oil processing plant the first in the world

                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
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  • How has palm oil production changed since the 1960s?
  • Palm oil production has increased rapidly since the 1960s. Between 1970 and 2020, the world’s production of palm oil increased by about 40 times. Global production went from only 2 million tonnes to around 80 million tonnes. The change in global production is shown in the chart.3
  • When did palm oil become a commercial crop?
  • In terms of large-scale commercial production, however, oil palm is a relatively recent crop that only emerged into global prominence later in the twentieth century, with an almost linear rise from 1990 to the early 2000s, followed by a plateau after 2007 (Malaysian Palm Oil Production by Year 2020 ).
  • Where is palm oil produced?
  • Most palm oil is currently produced in South East Asia, even though the oil palm is originally an African crop. The two largest producers are Malaysia and Indonesia, who together account for about 85% of the world’s palm oil production. Indonesia is the world’s largest producer of palm oil, followed by Malaysia.
  • When did oil palm grow?
  • Smallholders started to cultivate oil palm throughout the country and in 1989, oil palm became the nation’s main economic crop (New Straits Times 2017 ). The planted area of oil palm tree had increased exponentially throughout the years from only 55,000 ha in 1960 to 5.90 million hectares in 2019.