Economical and versatile, palm oil has become the world's most widely used vegetable oil. Although palm oil can be produced sustainably, rising consumption increases the risk of tropical rainforests being cut down to make way for
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Palm - Palm - Economic importance: The palms with the greatest importance in world commerce are the coconut and the African oil palm ; both are prime sources of vegetable oil and fat. Few plants are as versatile as the
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34% of the world's vegetable oil comes from the oil palm tree, of which 84% comes from merely two countries, Indonesia and Malaysia, where highly biodiverse tropical rainforest has been cut down
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Table 12: Global Production of Major Vegetable Oils by Type : Breakdown of Volume Production for Coconut Oil, Cottonseed Oil, Olive Oil, Palm Oil, Palm...
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But most vegetable oil used across the globe comes from a crop called oil palm. Oil palm has the highest oil productivity among all oilseed crops. Manoel Teixeira Souza Júnior is a researcher in Brazil who works with oil palm plants. The work of
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Palm oil is the most popularly used vegetable oil in the world. It is remarkably versatile and is used in everything from snack food and shampoo to biofuel. It is so prevalent that it can be found
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