KUALA LUMPUR, April 17 (Reuters) - Following are the age
profiles of oil palm trees and percentage of total land they
cover as well as distribution in Malaysia, the second-largest
producer of palm oil in the world.
Total palm oil hectarage in the Southeast Asian nation stood
at 4.5 million hectares at end-2008, rising 4.5 percent from
2007, estimates from the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) showed.
MPOB data showed major palm oil producing Sabah and Sarawak
states in Borneo island account for 46.5 percent of the total
hectarage in 2008 while mainland Malaysia made up the rest.
The age-profile data is taken from a rough survey on palm oil
traders, government officials and plantation company executives
in Malaysia.
Age of oil palms Percentage of total land under
oil palms (4.5 million hecares)
1-3 years 10.5 pct
4-8 years 27.0 pct
9-13 years 25.0 pct
14-18 years 16.0 pct
19-25 years 17.0 pct
25 years and above 5.0 pct
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Year Mainland % Sabah % Sarawak % Total
Malaysia share share share
(all in hectares)
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2008 2,410,000 53.6 1,345,000 29.9 745,000 16.6 4,500,000
2007 2,362,057 54.9 1,278,244 29.7 664,612 15.4 4,304,913
2006 2,334,247 56.0 1,239,497 29.8 591,471 14.2 4,165,215
2005 2,298,608 56.7 1,209,368 29.9 543,398 13.4 4,051,374
2004 2,201,606 56.8 1,165,412 30.1 508,309 13.1 3,875,327
2000 2,045,500 60.6 1,000,777 29.6 330,387 9.8 3,376,664
1995 1,903,171 74.9 518,133 20.4 118,783 4.7 2,540,087
1990 1,698,498 83.7 276,171 13.6 54,795 2.7 2,029,464
(Sources: Malaysian Palm Oil Board, traders, plantation
officials)
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