Initially oil palm was introduced in Malaysia in 1870, becoming the ornamental plants. Since 1960, oil palm planted area increased year by year. Planting area has reached 1.5 million hectares in 1985, and increased to 4.3 million hectares in 2007 . Now, the oil palm has become the most important agricultural in Malaysia.
The Oil Palm Industry in Malaysia is grouped into clusters covering :
1.Upstream producers,
2.Downstream producers,
3.Exporters and importers,
4.Buyers,
5.Government agencies
6.NGOs.
The ownership of oil palm planted area of distribution, including private enterprises accounted for 60%; government agencies such as the Federal Land Development Authority FELDA and the federal Bureau of Land revival FELCRA 29%; smallholders accounted for 11%.
The 4 largest companies palm oil company in Malaysia in terms of planted area are :
1) Kumpulan Guthrie Berhad
2) Golden Hope Plantations Berhad
3) IOI Corporation Berhad
4) Sime Darby Berhad
In Malaysia, the oil palm is planted improved varieties Tenera based. This species of palm oil production of about 4.0 tons per hectare, plus 0.5 tons of palm kernel oil (PKO) and 0.6 tons of palm kernel meal (PKM). Oil palm planting of up to 30 months after the harvest period, its economic life of 25 years. Equivalent to the volume of palm fruit Survival Song size, palm fruit clusters grow, each string weighing about 10kg-50kg. Each string of up to 2000 fruit. Each fruit from pulp (mesocarp) and nuts (seeds) into. Pulp containing about 49% of palm oil, nuts contain about 50% of the palm kernel oil. Both components of the oil are a big difference. Palm oil containing mainly palmitic acid (C16: 0) and oleic acid (C18: 1). In fact, these two components are common to all fatty acids of natural oils. The degree of saturation is about 50% of palm oil. And palm kernel containing mainly Laurel Acid (C12: 0), the degree of saturation of more than 80%.Henan Huatai Cereals and Oils Machinery Co.,Ltd supply different capacity palm oil processing machine, palm kernel oil pressing, palm oil mill plant, crude palm oil processing, any need, please email to info01@cnoilmachine.com