palm oil and filtering equipment in tanzania

                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
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  • What equipment is used in oil palm farming?
  • Field machinery during the oil palm farming stage. This includes machinery for field ploughing (such as tractors), irrigation, fertilizer and pesticides application, harvesting/lifting machines, trailers etc. These are big machines. Palm oil processing and refinery machinery.
  • What is oil palm used for?
  • Oil palm is most popular to the west of the country, particularly in Kigoma District, where local farmers have cultivated this palm to produce edible oil since the early 1920s. More recently, additional uses for this crop have developed, such as local soap production using palm oil.
  • How many litres of oil a year does a palm plant produce?
  • Similar low productivity levels have been reported for oil palm in Kigoma and Mbeya, whereby under current farming conditions one Dura plant yields 7-8 litres of palm oil/year; and, a plant of Tenera yields 28 litres/year. As for avocados, there is no single company in Tanzania which processes avocados to produce edible oils.
  • How much oil is extracted from a bunch of palm kernels?
  • The oil palm produces bunches containing many fruits with the fleshy mesocarp enclosing a kernel that is covered by a very hard shell. FAO considers palm oil (coming from the pulp) and palm kernels to be primary products19. The oil extraction rate from a bunch varies from 17 to 27% for palm oil, and from 4 to 10% for palm kernels or ‘Misse’.