We went to the oil palm museum last. There were 2 parts to the oil palm plantation. The first was the plantation, where they grow the oil palms. Oil palms can be harvested from the age of 3 years. If an oil palm is ripe, 5 seeds will drop when one of its palm fronds are cut. Oil palms are chopped down when they reach 25 years old. There are male, female and unisex oil palms. They are pollinated by bees. 6 months after the bees pollinate them, the fruits will appear. The center of the oil palm fruit is a white seed called a kernnel. The kernnel is usually used to make cosmetics.
At the oil palm mill, there is a strong smell. Trucks are weighed before and after they dump the oil palm fruits. The fruits are what they burn to produce oil. The fruits are cleaned with steam and the fruitlets are threshed after that to seperate them.
Done by Roxanne Ng 2B
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