What is palm oil? It’s an edible vegetable oil that comes from the fruit of oil palm trees, the scientific name is Elaeis guineensis. Two types of oil can be produced; crude palm oil comes from squeezing the fleshy fruit, and palm kernel oil which comes from crushing the kernel, or the stone in the middle of the fruit.
Below is the List Of Palm Oil Companies In Ghana
Ghana Oil Palm Development Company
Ghana Oil Palm Development Company
Phone: 054 010 1514
Palm Life Cooking Oil
Phone: 054 617 0702
ORCHARD INDUSTRIAL COMPANY LIMITED
Phone: 020 739 9805
Homefoods Processing And Cannery Ltd
Phone: 030 230 3914
Palm Oil Production & Sales
Phone: 020 207 3153
Serendipalm Company Limited
Phone: 024 769 0257
Galaxy Oil Ghana Limited Head Office
Phone: 030 340 4859
GREEN PALM OIL COMPANY LIMITED
Phone: 024 227 2459
Vivo Energy Ghana
Phone: 030 242 8282
Saipem ltd
Address: JR79+5G5, Accra
Where is palm oil produced in Ghana?
forest belt
Oil palm is grown in the forest belt in Ghana, where the rainfall amount is greater than 1200 mm/annum and distributed in a bimodal fashion.
The most suitable areas for oil palm cultivation in Ghana are in the Western, Central,
Does Ghana Export palm oil?
Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified. Exports of commodity group 1511 “Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified.” amounted to 0.648% of total exports from Ghana (cumulative merchandise exports from Ghana totaled $ 16.7 billion in 2019).
and Eastern Regions.
How palm oil is produced locally?
The village’s traditional method of extracting palm oil involves washing pounded fruit mash in warm water and hand squeezing to separate fiber and nuts from the oil/water mixture.
A colander, basket, or vessel with fine perforated holes in the bottom is used to filter out fiber and nuts.