Indonesia is blessed with rich soil and perfect climate suittable for optimum growth of palm trees. Consenquently, palm oil tree can nicely grow and produce palm oil which very important commodity for health of population and economy of Indonesia. In it’s development, palm oil processing industry is one of the strategic agricultural-based industries in Indonesia economy. Currently, Indonesia is the largest palm oil producing country in the world. The growing plantation area and increasing productioan of palm oil in Indonesia . Increase of total production of palm oil has driven the growth of volume and value of palm oil exports of Indonesia.
Palm oil tree, as plant producing edible oil, is superior especially associated with it’s high productivity of about 3 ton/ha/year. Not only that the productivity is high, palm oil production costs is also cheaper, of about US$ 160/ton. This value is of significance, especially compared to that of soybean productivity of only about 0,3 tons/ha/year with production costs of about US$ 300/ton.
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