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Key statistics

  2008 2007   2006 2005 2004
Allocated Area - Hectares
Mature oil palm 16,487 13,080   13,080 13,085 13,142
Immature oil palm (developed in prior years) 9,032 11,814   5,250 3,000 -
Immature oil palm (developed in current year) 2,781 1,514   6,564 2,250 3,000
Under preparation for oil palm development - 11,500 ¹ 6,500 6,000 4,500
  28,300 37,908   31,394 24,335 20,642
Reserve area ² 86,541 84,018   34,022 41,801 24,793
Total 114,841 121,926   65,416 66,136 45,435

¹ includes 5,000 hectares outstanding from 2007 planting program

² includes conservation areas, roads and other infrastructure, areas available for planting and areas under negotiation

 
Production - Tonnes
Oil palm fresh fruit bunch crop - group 450,906 393,217   332,704 312,676 293,883
Oil palm fresh fruit bunch crop - external 6,460 2,767   1,372 679 -
  457,366 395,984   334,076 313,355 293,883

Crude palm oil 105,597 93,229   77,597 73,262 71,473
Palm kernel 20,846 15,660   12,698 12,647 12,169
Total palm products 126,443 108,889   90,295 85,909 83,642
 
Oil extraction rate 23.1% 23.5%   23.2% 23.4% 24.3%
Kernel extraction rate 4.6% 4.0%   3.8% 4.0% 4.1%
 
Yields - Tonnes per mature hectare
Fresh fruit bunches 27.3 29.6   25.5 23.8 22.4

Crude palm oil 6.4 7.1   5.9 5.6 5.4
Palm kernel 1.3 1.2   1.0 1.0 0.9
Total palm products 7.7 8.3   6.9 6.6 6.3