ABSTRACT
Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) is a versatile crop with increasing multiple uses, especially for food and energy (Alonso-Frajedas et al. 2016). Palm oil has a number of comparative advantages over other vegetable oils. The oil palm has the highest oil yield, which could reach as high as ten times of the yield of soybean, rapeseed and canola oils. It also has the lowest land requirement to produce one ton of oil, and the lowest production cost per hectare (Corley and Tinker 2015). While covering 6% of the total global agricultural land, palm oil production contributes to one-third of global vegetable oil production. Oil palm also has a long lifespan, as it can provide continuous harvest in about 25-30 years.
