Organic Palm Nut Oil Tree Care in Rural Thailand

Here's our latest video from our Growing Palm Oil Trees on the farm playlist, "Palm Nut Oil Tree Care." Today was a good day spent maintaining our 50 Palm Nut Oil trees. It began by strimming back the weeds & grass that had grown during the rainy season. I then checked to see the effectiveness of our last mulching & any improvements to the topsoil. The freshly cut grass & weeds were then replaced to act as a new mulch for the young palm oil trees. Palm Oil Background Information: Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms, primarily the African oil palm Elaeis guineensis, & to a lesser extent from the American oil palm Elaeis oleifera and the maripa palm Attalea maripa. Palm-nut Oils: Palm oil is naturally reddish in colour because of high beta-carotene content. It is not to be confused with palm kernel oil derived from the kernel of the same fruit or coconut oil derived from the kernel of the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera). The differences are in colour (raw palm kernel oil lacks carotenoids and is not red), and in saturated fat content: palm mesocarp oil is 49% saturated, while palm kernel oil and coconut oil are 81% and 86% saturated fats, respectively. However, crude red palm oil, refined, bleached and deodorized, a common commodity called RBD palm oil, does not contain carotenoids. Many industrial food applications of palm oil use fractionated components of palm oil (often listed as "modified palm oil") whose saturation levels can reach 90%; these "modified" palm oils can become highly saturated but are not necessarily hydrogenated. Palm Oil Extraction: The oil palm produces bunches containing many fruits with the fleshy mesocarp enclosing a kernel covered by a very hard shell. The FAO considers palm oil (from the pulp) and palm kernels primary products. The oil extraction rate from a bunch varies from 17 to 27% for palm oil, and from 4 to 10% for palm kernels. Palm Oil Consumption: Along with coconut oil, palm oil is one of the few highly saturated vegetable fats and is semisolid at room temperature. Palm oil is a common cooking ingredient in the tropical belt of Africa, Southeast Asia and Brazil. Its use in the commercial food industry in other parts of the world is widespread because of its lower cost & the high oxidative stability (saturation) of the refined product when used for frying. One source reported that humans consumed an average of 17 pounds (7.7 kg) of palm oil per person in 2015. Palm Oil Cultivation Concerns: The use of palm oil in food products has attracted the concern of environmental activist groups; the high oil yield of the trees has encouraged wider cultivation, leading to the clearing of forests in parts of Indonesia to make space for oil palm monoculture. This has resulted in significant acreage losses of the natural habitat of the three surviving species of orangutan. One species, particularly the Sumatran orangutan, has been listed as critically endangered. In 2004, an industry group called the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil was formed to work with the palm oil industry to address these concerns. Additionally, in 1992, in response to concerns about deforestation, the Government of Malaysia pledged to limit the expansion of palm oil plantations by retaining a minimum of half the nation's land as forest cover. 🏆 PATREON   / kartoongallagher   ☕ COFFEE https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ToonandL... 🏅 MEMBER    / @tlfarm      • FARM LIFE DAILY VLOG   🌐 WEBSITE - https://www.porpeangfarmthailand.com/ 📧 EMAIL - [email protected] 🌴 Toon and Leigh Porpeang Farm Thailand 🇹🇭 #️⃣ #thailand #thailandvlog #ruralthailand #thailandexpat #livinginthailand #lifeinthailand