Bright prospect of oil palm cultivation in Joypurhat

Bright prospect of oil palm cultivation in Joypurhat.

Our Correspondent

JOYPURHAT, Feb 9: A good future for oil palm cultivation in Joypurhat district is opening up here. A delegation from the University Malaysia Sabah visited Joypurhat to study feasibility of oil palm plantation and industries in Joypurhat, recently.

The Malaysian team comprising experts of oil plant management visited different oil palm plant farm here.
Prof Amizi Bin Ayub and Dr Connie Fay Komilus of the University Malaysia Sabah were in the team. Bangladeshi scientist Prof Dr Alimul Islam, a resident of Joypurhat now working as Professor of School of Sustainable Agriculture University, Malaysia, led the team. Titas Mostafa, Vice Chairman of Joypurhat Sadar Upazila arranged the programme.

Owner of a palm plant nursery Mamunur Rashid said that he has cultivated palm plant on five acres of land investing Tk 0.7 million. He has already sold plants at Tk 0.5 million and has a stock of plants around Tk 0.3 million. Another farmer Sanowar Hossain Sanu has cultivated palm plant on nine acres of land investing Tk 1.8 million. He has also sold plants of Tk 0.8 million and has a stock of around Tk 2 million.

If we get consultancy and technical support, we can do better in this field, farmers said.

Prof Amizi Bin Ayub and Dr Connie Fay Komilus told the FE We had successful talks with the farmers. We certainly will extend our hands to the Bangladeshi farmers with consultancy and technical support whenever they need, they said, adding that they wish Bangladeshi palm farmers will build up palm oil industry and it can be built in Joypurhat.

Source: www.thefinancialexpress-bd.com, 10th Feb-2011

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RANGPUR, Oct 4 (BSS): Speakers at a seminar here Saturday said large-scale cultivation of palm trees could meet the demand for edible oil and earn huge foreign currencies.

The palm trees can be planted along the roadsides and other places throughout the country without affecting the traditional arable crops to get unimaginable profits maintaining a balanced environment, they said.

The seminar titled ‘Prospects of palm farming in Bangladesh and our roles’ was organised by Green Bangladesh Ltd (GBL), a subsidiary organisation of Sahaba Group for Rajshahi Division, at the Baro Rangpur Keramotia Kamil Madrasa.

Chaired by Alhaj Shamsul Azam, the seminar was attended by Chairman of the GBL Mohammad Zia Uddin Moral as the chief guest while Deputy Managing Director of the GBL Abdullah Al Kafi, Chief Coordinators for Dhaka Nurul Islam and Mosharraf Hossain from Dinajpur were present as the special guests.

GBL officials Abdul Matin and Abu Syed Mohammad Hamid of Rangpur, Rabiul Islam of Kurigram, palm farmers Abdul Matin, Abdul Mazid, Azgar Ali, Abdus Sattar, Nazmur Rahman, Mozaffar Hossain, Shamsuddoha, Lutfar Rahman, Abul Hossain and union member Afzal Hossain, addressed it.

Besides, GBL officials of different northern districts, palm farmers and public representatives took part in the seminar.

The speakers said the slogan of ‘Liquid gold of green trees shall change whole Bangladesh’ would come true within the next few years if proper attention and importance were given to palm tree plantation under government, private and personal initiatives.

The soil and the climatic condition are very much favourable for palm farming throughout the country and its massive cultivation would accelerate the process of poverty alleviation in rural Bangladesh and build a developed digital Bangladesh, they said.

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Is palm oil safe to eat?

Q: Is palm oil safe to eat?

With all these trans fat free products new on grocery shelves, I have noticed that hydrogenated soybean oil has been replaced with palm oil. This palm oil is in a lot of products that are supposed to be good for you. Example peanut butter, and some Kashi bars. I was told by my Doctor not to eat anything that has coconut oil or palm kernal oil in it. Is this palm oil safe to eat, or is it as harmful as the other bad oils?

Dr. Gourmet Says...

Your doctor is correct and you should avoid foods that have coconut oil or palm kernel oil. Both are high in saturated fat and there's good reason to be careful with such products.

Palm oil is taken from the fruit of the palm, however. Palm kernel oil is pressed from the seeds (kernels) of the fruit and is much higher in saturated fat at about 80% vs. only 50% in palm oil. Palm oil also has a higher ratio of "good fats" though and early research shows that palm oil has similar effects on cholesterol profiles (total cholesterol, HDL and LDL cholesterol) as olive oil.

So you should be safe with products like the peanut butter and Kashi bars that contain palm oil and not palm kernel oil.

Thanks for writing,

Dr. Gourmet

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