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  • How is palm oil processed?
  • For crude palm oil processing, it generally required complete processes such as sterilization, threshing, cooking, pressing, washing, purification, and drying. Sterilization as the first step in palm fruit pressing is critical to the quality of the final production– palm oil.
  • How oil palm seed products are adapted to different areas?
  • In parallel specific programs are carried on in order to develop planting material adapted to the different areas were grows oil palm. This goes through the creation of oil palm seed products resistant to diseases whether it is for bud rot in South America, Fusarium wilt in Africa and Ganoderma basal stem rot in Asia.
  • How is oil extracted from a palm tree?
  • Oil is extracted from the fruit mesocarp (crude palm oil) and from the seed (palm kernel oil). Botanically, the fruit is a drupe, with the kernel protected by a shell (nut). The commercial oil palm is Tenera (thin shelled), which is a hybrid from crossing Dura (thick shelled) seed palms with Pisifera (no shell) pollen palms.
  • Where are oil palm seeds produced in Africa?
  • The major oil palm seed producers in Africa are CIRAD and its partners in Ivory Coast (CNRA), Cameroon (IRAD, SOCFINCO) and INRAB in Benin, OPRI in Ghana, NIFOR in Nigeria and Unipalma in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Ghana. An estimated 25 million oil palm seeds per annum are produced in Africa (Table 6).