KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia produced an estimated 80 million tonnes dry weight of oil palm biomass in 2011, reflecting the importance and significant potential of biomass, said Plantation Industries and Commodities Deputy Minister Datuk Hamzah Zainudin.
This biomass includes empty fruit bunches, mesocarp fibres, oil palm shells, oil palm fronds and oil palm trunks. In addition, about 54 million tonnes of palm oil mill effluent, which is mainly water but also contains a substantial amount of biomass solids, was produced.
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