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Oil palm is an oil-producing tropical perennial crop. Elaeis guineensis is a single-stemmed palm which bears a single vegetative shoot, which is continuously active producing a new leaf every two weeks in mature palms. Palm trees may grow up to sixty feet and more in height. The trunks of young and mature trees are wrapped in … Continue reading
The African Plantation Industry Attempts from the early 1800s to establish commercial-scale plantations in West Africa and to put palm oil production there on a firm commercial basis met with numerous obstacles that impeded development. There were impediments in terms of political instability and internal conflicts that hampered economic progress in general, as well as … Continue reading
The African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) has been utilized by mankind as a source of oil and other products for thousands of years. In the last 50 years or so there has been a phenomenal expansion in its cultivation throughout the tropics, such that palm oil is now a major commodity of world trade, … Continue reading
Oil Palm Knowledge Base 