• What is Nakiyadeniya palm oil mill?
  • With significant investments over the years, Nakiyadeniya Palm Oil Mill has today become one of the leading palm oil mills in Sri Lanka. The extraction process begins with the transportation of ripe fresh fruit bunches harvested from plantations to the mills.
  • Why is oil palm cultivation increasing in Sri Lanka?
  • Since 1968, oil palm cultivation has rapidly increased throughout the Low Country Wet Zone of Sri Lanka as it was seen as an economical and profitable crop for the last 50 years. Since 1968, oil palm cultivation has been going through various changes in the Plantation Management Practices such as:
  • What percentage of the world’s oil palms are produced?
  • Oil palm covers 7% of the total cultivated lands for vegetable oils globally, but has the highest output, producing 40 % of all oils and fats. M. Jerry Wales, a European Planter, commenced the cultivation of Oil Palm in Sri Lanka in 1968 at Nakiyadeniya Estate by planting 68 oil palm plants covering an extent of 0.50 Ha.
  • How is palm oil extracted?
  • Palm oil is extracted from fresh fruit bunches (FFB) by mechanical and heating processes. Currently, the mill handles 15 MT per hour of FFB. It has the capacity to process 55,000 FFB MT per annum and presently produces over 12,000 MT of Crude Palm Oil (CPO), 1,250 MT of Palm kernel oil (PKO) and 2,000 MT of Palm Kernel Cake.
  • What is palm oil mill?
  • Commenced its operations in 1984, the palm oil mill is using the latest palm oil milling technology to enhance efficiency with a low operating cost. Palm oil is extracted from fresh fruit bunches (FFB) by mechanical and heating processes.
  • Is oil palm a harmful environmental crop?
  • The fact that oil palm is a harmful environmental crop is a notion largely associated with Malaysian and Indonesian oil palm plantations which have planted oil palm in lands deforesting natural forests. However, this doesn¡¯t apply to the Sri Lankan context at all. Price of 1 nut/ 1kg (Rs.)