edible palm oil production line in cameroon

   
edible palm oil production line in cameroon
                                               
                                               
                                               
                                               
  • edible palm oil production line in cameroon
  • How much palm oil is produced in Cameroon?
  • In Cameroon, palm oil is produced across three plantation types or scales: approximately 120,000 tons come from agro-industrial plantations (58,860 ha), 30,000 tons from supervised smallholder plantations (35,000 ha), and an estimated 80,000 tons from independent smallholdings (100,000 ha).
  • Is there a potential oil palm yield gap in Cameroon?
  • In Cameroon, we found that on-farm oil palm yields averaged 5¨C7 tons FFBs ha 1 throughout the study area and across producer groups, well below the 20 tons FFBs ha 1 potential yield for the country ( Nkongho et al., 2015 ). The large yield gap points to a major opportunity to increase production on existing oil palm fields.
  • When was the first oil palm planted in Cameroon?
  • Oil palm was first planted commercially in Cameroon in 1907 in some of the earliest oil palm plantations in Africa ( Hoyle and Levang, 2012 ). Six agro-industrial companies (hereafter referred to as industrial producers) currently operate in Cameroon and produce over half of the country¡¯s palm oil.
  • Does non-industrial oil palm development affect primary forests in Cameroon?
  • Similarly, Ndjogui et al. (2016) found that 71% of smallholder oil palm plantations in Cameroon expanded into secondary forests, and 5% into intact forests. These findings suggest that non-industrial oil palm developments have a lesser impact on primary forests.