Sunday, September 19, 2010

Palm Oil Production With The GreenPalm Certificate Trading Programme

By Mollie M. Carter

Palm oil is an important oil that is found in many food products. It is also a highly used raw material that is found in other cosmetic products. The production of palm oil is a major international industry. Palm oil, coconut oil, and palm kernel oil all are all produced from the fruit of palm trees. The Palm oil itself is extracted from the pulp of the fruit.

GreenPalm is a certificate trading programme which tackles the environmental and social problems that are created by the production of palm oil.

Through selling certificates via the GreenPalm programme the producers of palm oil can earn more for their crop through sustainable farming practices.

By choosing a product which bears the GreenPalm logo, buyers can play their part in the production of certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO) and palm kernel oil (CSPKO).

By making or marketing goods which are covered by by the GreenPalm programme food manufacturers and merchants can compensate palm producers for peforming in a sustainable and responsible method, and tell their customers that they have done so.

The key to understanding the GreenPalm programme is to be aware that palm oil supplies will originate from a variety of plantations, mills and even nations are intermingled at each stage of the production and delivery procedure.

Through GreenPalm manufacturing businesses, retailers and end customers can then make environmentally responsible purchasing decisions.

Under usual circumstances it is therefore impossible for palm oil buyers to know specifically where their oil has originated from and how it has been produced.

It is of course possible to process and dispatch palm oil in separate batches - however physical segregation increases cost at each point of the process. The GreenPalm programme therefore functions by bypassing the physical supply chain entirely.

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