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An African palm tree can produce about 4 ton/ha/year, or 8,000 pounds, in its natural habitat, the rain tropical forest.
It has two kinds of oil: the kernel palm, from the seed, and the oil from the pulp, the oil palm. Booth are international commodities.
The African palm tree (Elaeis guineensis) is the second palm tree more knowed and comercialized in the world, after coconut palm (Cocos nucifera) and followed by data palm (Phoenix dactilifera).
In Brazil, where slaves of the Colonization period has brought seeds from their African countries, the African palm tree became well adapted, mainly in Pará and Amazonas states (in Amazon region), where the weather has enough humidity. The same occurs in Bahia state, next to Ilhéus. In Belém, some biodiesel is produced from the co-products of the pulp oil extration, by Agropalm industries.
The principal uses of their oil is for siderurgy, lubricating and nutrition, and the biggest world producers are Malaysia, New Zealand and Thai.
Finally, African palm tree is being studied and researched in Brazil, where are hibrids and variations like tenera and dura wich protects the plantation against diseases.
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