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Why Sri Lanka’s export basket should take a welcome tilt to Oil Palm-By Steve A. Morrell Source:Island The National Geographic Magazine in their publication of December 2018, had a lot to say about the benefits of oil palm. ‘The abundant oil from the fruit of oil palm can be found under different ingredient names in everything from cookies to soap to lipstick. A natural alternative to trans fats. It provides many other benefits. It is cheap to produce, stable in processing, and slow to smoke it has a long shelf life’ The African oil palm, a native to Africa has been introduced all over the world. The tree is an oil producing machine with some 20 fruit bunches found at the top of its trunk each containing up to 3000 palm fruit. ...