Increasing oil palm yield and enhancing production efficiency are viable alternatives to opening new lands for oil palm cultivation. Photo: Malaysian Palm Oil Council
On a per hectare basis, no other crop produces as much vegetable oil as the oil palm (Elaeis guineensis).
In Malaysia, the average oil palm yield per annum is 4.25 tonnes of oil per hectare, far exceeding the rapeseed (0.59 tonnes), sunflower (0.42 tonnes) and soybean (0.36 tonnes) oils produced elsewhere.
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