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its establishment in the beginning of twentieth century, oil palm plantation management has evolved rapidly in terms of efficiency and productivity. Oil palm is a versatile plant that almost every single part of it proven to be useful (Figure 1). Oil palm produced two types of oil: palm oil and palm kernel oil. They are both extracted from mesocarp and the seed or kernel (hard-shell mesocarp) by delicate separation at certain phases in palm oil factory/milling processes (Basiron 2007). The two oils

THE DUBAI PALMS: CONSTRUCTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES ETHAN POLIE In the late twentieth century, the Middle Eastern nation of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) began to make plans to distance itself from the petroleum industry that dominates most of the Persia. Driven by the fact that internal experts believe the country’s oil reserves will be depleted by the year 2012, the UAE is attempting to transition to a service industry, with a major focus on tourism, retail, and entertainment. In order

The article I decided to read and summarize has to do with the environmental impact of palm oil. Palm oil is a tropical crop that is mostly used for the production of the oil the crop contains. It has the largest yield and it is the least expensive of all vegetable oils making it the most abundantly used by consumers. Not only is palm oil used for cooking oil and in foods but it is found in almost every single product in the supermarket. This includes soaps, cosmetics, household cleaners, and much

HEALTH BENEFITS OF PALM OIL. Palm oil is the oil derived from the nuts of palm trees, it is distinguished by it’s red colour. It is mostly used for cooking all over the world. Palm oil is gotten from extracting the oil out of the palm fruit. The extraction process needs a lot of processing before it can get to its finished product i.e Palm oil. Palm oil is mostly cultivated in Africa and Southeast Asia. It is the most edible oil in Africa. Palm oil is gotten from two major varieties which are: Elaeis

Introduction Palm Oil makes up more than 50% of daily used goods, particularly food goods, but this is not without effects on other animals, plants and people. Many people are completely unaware of the effects of Palm Oil. This is the reason why more awareness of Palm Oil and it’s effects, is necessary. This report will look at what Palm Oil is, how it is used, it’s positives, it’s negatives and sustainable Palm Oil. About Palm Oil What is Palm Oil? Palm Oil is an edible vegetable oil, that originates

Palm Oil is quickly becoming world’s most popular vegetable oil. Palm Oil needs warm, rich soil to grow. The ideal place for them is in the Rainforests of countries like: Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Indonesia, Liberia, Malaysia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. The Oil Palm trees can't grow in the rainforest because they are only small trees, which means that they can't get enough light in the shadows of other trees. The Oil Palms grown best in hot and humid countries

would severely cramped margins of any company expecting large returns from these devices. Every person on the block could now knock off a version of a Palm Handheld, Hawkins found a complimentary market, and handspring was nimble enough to beat all the big players to

In the year of 2017, palm oil has become ubiquitous to one’s lifestyle. The time has come, where the truth of the mysterious ingredient of palm oil must be spread. It has taken charge as the leading cause of deforestation, yet leaves the common people uninformed. Palm oil is a type of buttery oil, similarly alike to vegetable oil and coconut oil (Questions and Answers about Palm Oil). It is derived from the fruit of oil palms, and it is in roughly half of all products sold in grocery stores (Last

Palm oil is a type of edible vegetable oil that is derived from the palm fruit, grown on the African oil palm tree. They are originally from Western Africa, but can develop wherever heat and rainfall are abundant. Today, palm oil is grown throughout Africa, Asia, North America, and South America, with 85% of all palm oil globally produced and exported from Indonesia and Malaysia but most of the time not using sustainable measures. In total, 50 million tons of palm oil is produced annually, supplying

well as drive a large portion of the worlds biodiversity into extinction. Among the most prevalent case of environmental degradation and biodiversity loss includes the rapid deforestation and loss of biodiversity that is caused by the production of palm oil in the South Asian countries Indonesia and Malaysia. Many may argue that this rapid deforestation is simply due to the rapidly growing global population, whereas many others view this issue as the effect of greed and consumerism that surrounds