Again ... Riau Oil Palm Shell Exports Show Off

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, the names of palm oil cake (Palm Kernel Expeller / PKE) and palm kernel shell (Palm Kernel Shell / PKS) are increasingly existing. Even though they are not the main product of palm oil processing and even only waste, the potential and benefits of these two products have been recognized and accepted by developed countries in the world. PKE and PKS that will be exported come from palm oil center provinces in Indonesia, one of which is Riau Province. Riau Province not only recorded achievements with the largest oil palm land holdings in Indonesia, but also PKE and PKS export records that continued to skyrocket. Pekanbaru Agricultural Quarantine through IQfast data recorded and compared the increase in the frequency and volume of palm shell exports in Semester I-2020 with Semester I-2019. As a result, in Semester I-2019, the frequency of shipments of palm kernel shells was recorded as 67 times with export volume reaching 466,909 tonnes, while in ...