REFLECTION
Our trip to the Oil Processing Factory & Harvest Fruit Factory was an interesting but smelly one. However, it help us understand more about the oil palms and its characteristics. The oil palm plants have bright male and female flowers which bear fruits by the thousands. Its fruits are round, ovoid or elongated in shape which make up compact bunches weighing between 10-40 kg. Although we did not enter the factory, we are able to view the fruits of the oil palm very closely. There were rows of it which adds up to almost 500 ! The oil palms are used in commercial agriculture in the production of palm oil.
RESEARCH
The oil palm tree originates from West Africa where it grows in the wild and later was developed into an agricultural crop. It was introduced to Malaysia, then Malaya, by the British in early 1870’s as an ornamental plant. In 1917, the first commercial planting took place in Tennamaran Estate in Selangor, laying the foundations for the vast oil palm plantations and the palm oil industry in Malaysia. The cultivation of oil palm increased at a fast pace in early 1960s under the government’s agricultural diversification programme , which was introduced to reduce the country’s economic dependence on rubber and tin. Later in the 1960s, the government introduced land settlement schemes for planting oil palm as a means to eradicate poverty for the landless farmers and smallholders.
The oil palm produces two types of oils; crude palm oil from the fibrous mesocarp and crude palm kernel oil from the kernels. Palm oil, being a vegetable oil, is cholesterol-free. Palm oil is rich in Vitamin E . In fact, no other vegetable oil has as much Vitamin E compared to Palm Oil. Palm oil is very rich in calories. One gram of palm oil supplies 9 Kcal of energy, which is 2 ½ times more than one gram of protein (4 Kcal) or carbohydrates (4 Kcal).
Here are some pictures :
Our trip to the Oil Processing Factory & Harvest Fruit Factory was an interesting but smelly one. However, it help us understand more about the oil palms and its characteristics. The oil palm plants have bright male and female flowers which bear fruits by the thousands. Its fruits are round, ovoid or elongated in shape which make up compact bunches weighing between 10-40 kg. Although we did not enter the factory, we are able to view the fruits of the oil palm very closely. There were rows of it which adds up to almost 500 ! The oil palms are used in commercial agriculture in the production of palm oil.
RESEARCH
The oil palm tree originates from West Africa where it grows in the wild and later was developed into an agricultural crop. It was introduced to Malaysia, then Malaya, by the British in early 1870’s as an ornamental plant. In 1917, the first commercial planting took place in Tennamaran Estate in Selangor, laying the foundations for the vast oil palm plantations and the palm oil industry in Malaysia. The cultivation of oil palm increased at a fast pace in early 1960s under the government’s agricultural diversification programme , which was introduced to reduce the country’s economic dependence on rubber and tin. Later in the 1960s, the government introduced land settlement schemes for planting oil palm as a means to eradicate poverty for the landless farmers and smallholders.
The oil palm produces two types of oils; crude palm oil from the fibrous mesocarp and crude palm kernel oil from the kernels. Palm oil, being a vegetable oil, is cholesterol-free. Palm oil is rich in Vitamin E . In fact, no other vegetable oil has as much Vitamin E compared to Palm Oil. Palm oil is very rich in calories. One gram of palm oil supplies 9 Kcal of energy, which is 2 ½ times more than one gram of protein (4 Kcal) or carbohydrates (4 Kcal).
Here are some pictures :
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