WHICH COUNTRY PRODUCE PALM OIL - THE MOST

TODAY DUE to its versatility and resilience, palm oil has become a key ingredient in a whole host of diverse products we use daily such as detergent, lipstick, shampoo, chocolate, bread, ice cream and bio diesel. Along with the fact that it has a high melting point and doesn't spoil easily, palm oil also became enormously popular because it is relatively cheap, costing significantly less than other vegetable oils. Over the past 50 years, demand for the product has risen sharply with annual production quadrupling between 1995 and 2015 and it is expected to quadruple yet again by 2050. palm oil is now cultivated in tropical rainforests and soaring demand has caused devastating and irreparable environmental damage. Uncontrolled clearing of tropical rainforests has been linked to the destruction of the habitat of a number of endangered species including the orangutan, Sumatran tiger and Sumatran rhino. While palm oil cultivation has lifted incomes in rural parts of poorer nations it has also resulted in widespread labor and human rights abuses. Rising awareness of these issues have dented palm oil's reputation in recent years, but nevertheless, many consumers remain unaware that they are even using it. This blog "Anim Agriculture Technology" write about the most country producing palm oil.

The fact that palm oil is present in nearly every facet of our lives in which few countries are responsible for producing it. According to data from the United States Department of Agriculture and FAO Statistic, nearly 85% of palm oil is produced in just two countries that was Indonesia and Malaysia. In 2019 reported that Indonesia produced 42.5 million tons for 58% of global production while 19 million tons came from Malaysia or 26% of the global supply. Other major palm oil producers include Thailand, Colombia and Nigeria, though all three produced less than 3 million tons last year. By today, Indonesia is the world's largest producer of palm oil in which it surpassing Malaysia in 2006 when producing more than 20.9 million tonnes as a number that has since risen to over 34.5 million tons (2016 output). Indonesia expects to double production by the end of 2030. By 2019 estimated that this number was 51.8 million tons. At the end of 2010, 60% of the output was exported in the form of crude palm oil. FAO data shows production increased by over 400% between 1994 and 2004, to over 8.7 million metric tonnes.

Malaysia is the world's second largest producer of palm oil for many years but in 1992, in response to concerns about deforestation, the Government of Malaysia pledged to limit the expansion of palm oil plantations by retaining a minimum of half the nation's land as forest cover. In 2012 Malaysia manage to produced 18.8 million tonnes of crude palm oil on roughly 5,000,000 hectares (19,000 sq miles) of land. Though Indonesia produces more palm oil actually Malaysia is the world's largest exporter of palm oil having exported 18 million tonnes of palm oil products in 2011. India, China, Pakistan, the European Union and the United States are the primary importers of Malaysian palm oil products. In 2016, palm oil prices jumped to a four-year high days after Trump's election victory in the US. Today Thailand is the world's third largest producer of crude palm oil, producing approximately two million tonnes per year, or 1.2% of global output. Nearly all of Thai production is consumed locally. Almost 85% of palm plantations and extraction mills are in south Thailand. At year-end 2016, 4.7 to 5.8 million rai (750,000 to 930,000 hectares) were planted in oil palms, employing 300,000 farmers, mostly on small landholdings of 20 rai (3.2 ha). ASEAN as a region accounts for 52.5 million tonnes of palm oil production, about 85% of the world total and more than 90% of global exports. Indonesia accounts for 52% of world exports. Malaysian exports total 38%. The biggest consumers of palm oil are India, the European Union, and China, with the three consuming nearly 50% of world exports. Thailand's Department of Internal Trade (DIT) usually sets the price of crude palm oil and refined palm oil Thai farmers have a relatively low yield compared to those in Malaysia and Indonesia. Thai palm oil crops yield 4 - 17% oil compared to around 20% in competing countries. In addition, Indonesian and Malaysian oil palm plantations are 10 times the size of Thai plantations. Colombia reported in 2018 had total palm oil production in Colombia reached 1.6 million tonnes in which it representing some 8% of national agricultural GDP and fourth in the world benefiting mainly smallholders (65% of Colombia's palm oil sector). According to a study from the Environmental, Science and Policy, Colombia has the potential to produce sustainable palm oil without causing deforestation. In addition, palm oil and other crops provide a productive alternative for illegal crops, like coca. Nigeria in 2018 are the fifth-largest producer palm oil in the world with approximately 2.3 million hectares (5.7 million acres) under cultivation. Until 1934, Nigeria had been the world's largest producer. Both small- and large-scale producers participated in the industry. Thanks...

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(January 2021) and updated July 2024.

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