Oil palm or Elaeis Guineensis was first planted in Malaysia in the 1960s.Since then,Malaysia has become one of the leading palm oil producers in te world.Palm oil is extracted from the fruits of the oil palm which bis widely planted in our country.
The oil palm fruit is reddish-orange in colour.The fruits grow in bunches and there are about ten to fifteen bunches in a tree.Each bunch has about two hundred fruits.When they are ripe or ready to be harvested,the workers cut the bunches from the trees.Then they take them to a factory in a truck.Here the fruits are sterilized in a boiler and separated from the bunches.A machine then crushes the fruits to obtain crude palm oil.The crude oil is further processed until it becomes refined oil.The oil is used for cooking as well as making other products such as margarine,soap,candles and creamers.
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Nurul Izzati Binti Md. Yazid