• largest factory processed palm kernel oil in Tanzania
  • largest factory processed palm kernel oil in Tanzania
  • largest factory processed palm kernel oil in Tanzania
  • largest factory processed palm kernel oil in Tanzania
  • Can palm oil value chain development help alleviate poverty in Kigoma?
  • In Kigoma there are over 30,000 smallholder subsistence palm oil farmers2. Meanwhile, the country imports over 500,000 MT of palm oil per annum. Thus, palm oil value chain development offers great potential for both import substitution and poverty alleviation.
  • Which region produces the most palm oil?
  • Kigoma Region with 6,819 ha (70.0 percent) had the largest planted area, followed by Mbeya with 2,102 ha (21.6 percent). The other palm oil producing region was Pwani (444 ha: 4.6 percent). The total production was 16,593 Tons from 7,717 ha harvested with an average yield of 2.2 Tons/ha.
  • How many litres of oil a year does a palm plant produce?
  • Similar low productivity levels have been reported for oil palm in Kigoma and Mbeya, whereby under current farming conditions one Dura plant yields 7-8 litres of palm oil/year; and, a plant of Tenera yields 28 litres/year. As for avocados, there is no single company in Tanzania which processes avocados to produce edible oils.
  • What is Kigoma palm oil?
  • The main point of sale for Kigoma palm oil is local and in crude form. Fresh fruit bunches (FFBs) from oil palm trees yield crude palm oil (CPO), crude palm kernel oil (CPKO), and several other useful byproducts. The graphic below details all commodities that can be harvested from an oil palm tree;
  • How much oil is extracted from a bunch of palm kernels?
  • The oil palm produces bunches containing many fruits with the fleshy mesocarp enclosing a kernel that is covered by a very hard shell. FAO considers palm oil (coming from the pulp) and palm kernels to be primary products19. The oil extraction rate from a bunch varies from 17 to 27% for palm oil, and from 4 to 10% for palm kernels or ‘Misse’.
  • How many hectares of oil palm will go plant by 2020?
  • According to the company’s web page its aim is to establish ‘a 20,000 ha oil palm plantation by 2020’. AGO current annual planting is 800 ha which had the aim of reaching 2,500 ha by 2013. AGO had already acquired 5,000 ha and planted 435ha by 31st May 2009.