. Palm oil is harvested from the fruit of oil palm trees Elaeis guineensisSqueezing the fleshy fruit will produce crude palm oil while crushing the kernel seed of the fruit will produce palm kernel oil. Increasingly palm oil is used as a biofuel.
While the tropics are thought of as regions with warm to hot moist climates caused by latitude and the tropical rain belt the geology of areas particularly mountain chains and geographical relation to continental and regional scale winds impact the overall. Although tropical Africa is mostly familiar to the West for its rainforests this biogeographic realm of Africa is far more diverse. Increasingly palm oil is used as a biofuel.
Palm oil is harvested from the fruit of oil palm trees Elaeis guineensisSqueezing the fleshy fruit will produce crude palm oil while crushing the kernel seed of the fruit will produce palm kernel oil.
The oil palm is grown extensively in its native West and Central Africa as well as in Malaysia and IndonesiaPalm oil obtained from the fruits is used in making soaps cosmetics candles biofuels and lubricating greases and in processing tinplate and coating iron plates. Of palm oil production is used for cooking. Clearing for palm oil plantations has led to widespread rainforest destruction and peatland degradation especially in Indonesia and Malaysia where most of the worlds palm oil is grown. Bunches of oil palm fruit harvested by hand are trucked to a mill for processing in mainland Malaysia.