Countries growing oil palm
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Malaysia = Largest producer of oil palm in the world, other countries includes. It produces 58 per cent of world oil palm production from 55 per cent of world area under oil palm. Malaysia -2.2 m ha under oil palm out of world acreage of 4 m ha. It produces 7.5 m tones of oil out of world production of 13 m tones of palm oil.
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Oil palm is cultivated in roughly 4 m ha in the world to yield about 13 million tones of oil.
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Area Harvested (Ha)
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Yield (Hg/Ha)
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Production (tonnes)
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Indonesia
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5000000
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172000
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86000000
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Malaysia
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4002000
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211999
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84842000
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Nigeria
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3200000
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26562
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8500000
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Thailand
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510213
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159979
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8162380
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Colombia
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165000
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193939
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3200000
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Ghana
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352800
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59625
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2103600
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Ecuador
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135000
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155555
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2100000
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Papua New Guinea
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119000
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145378
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1730000
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Cameroon
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77000
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207792
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1600000
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Honduras
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100000
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152600
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1526000
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Total
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14921224
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210326644
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Area and production of oilpalm in world
India is importing about 5 to 8 lakh tones of palm oil every year from Malesia, Indonesia for Public Distribution system (PDS)
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1960 : Introduction of oil palm to our country was done systematically. Oil palm was raised in a plantation scale in an area of 40 ha in 1960 at Thodupuzha, Kerala where research Station for oil palm was started in 1960
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1971 : Large scale oil palm plantation development in Kerala. Two commercial plantations were initially established at Andaman and Kerala (1971 -1982).
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1971-81 : Oil palm attained commercial status in India
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1990-91 : Department of Biotechnology in collaboration with Govt of AP, Karnataka and Maharastra to up planting of oil palm in 1000 ha area to demonstrate feasibility of oil palm cultivation under irrigated conditions.
AP : Krishna, East Godavari and West Godavari
Karnataka : Shimogga
Maharastra : Sindhadurga Dist
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In Kerala the area under oil palm is rainfed ( 4 months dry spell) while in AP and Karnataka it is mainly irrigated
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State
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Potential Area In Ha.
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Andhra Pradesh
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4,00,000
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Chhattisgarh
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40,000
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Goa
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2,000
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Gujarat
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90,000
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Karnataka
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2,50,000
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Kerala
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6,500
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Mizoram
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61,000
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Orissa
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25,000
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Tamil Nadu
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1,62,000
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Total
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10,36,500
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Potential area that can be brought under oilpalm in India
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80,000ha of which
AP = 50,000 ha : Especially in coastal Dist of AP
Karnataka = 20,000 ha
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AP and Karnataka together constitutes 80 per cent of area under rubber. and
Tamil Nadu =8,000 ha
Other states( Gujarat, Orissa, WB, Assam and Tripura) =Remaining area.
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