• How much oil does oil palm produce a year?
  • Oil palm crops globally produce an annual 81 million tonnes (Mt) of oil from about 19 million hectares (Mha). In contrast, the second and third largest vegetable oil crops, soybean and rapeseed, yield a combined 84 Mt oil but occupy over 163 Mha of increasingly scarce arable land. The oil palm crop system faces many challenges in the 2020s.
  • How much oil can we produce from one hectare of land?
  • We can compare crops in terms of their yields ¨C how much oil we can produce from one hectare of land. This comparison is shown in the chart.12 Palm oil stands out immediately. It achieves a much higher yield than the alternatives. From each hectare of land, you can produce about 2.9 tonnes of palm oil.
  • How much land is used to grow palm oil?
  • Between 1970 and 2020, the land the world uses to grow palm has increased by almost ten times, from 3 million to almost 30 million hectares. Indonesia and Malaysia account for around 70% of global land use for palm oil. This is relatively little, considering that these countries account for more than 80% of production.
  • How many hectares of land are available for sustainable palm oil?
  • About 4.5 million hectares of available land for new plantations have been identified that could provide 1.3 million tonnes per year of sustainable palm oil. However, most of these areas are fragmented and scattered throughout the entire archipelago, which could pose economic and socio-political hurdles to developers of sustainable palm oil.
  • How many hectares of land are biophysically suitable for oil palm cultivation?
  • These total about 93 million hectares of land throughout Malaysia and Indonesia that are biophysically suitable for oil palm cultivation. Fig. 3. The oil palm suitability maps for the entire Malaysian and Indonesian archipelago: (a) biophysical and (b) environmental.
  • What is the extraction rate of palm oil?
  • FAO considers palm oil (coming from the pulp) and palm kernels as 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. (Unofficial definition) Metric: Area harvested Description: Data refer to the area from which a crop is gathered.