rkalangala palm oil project in ethiopia
- Product Name: palm oil processing plant machine
- Raw Material: palm
- Type: oil processing plant machine
- Voltage: 220v
- Capacity: 50-500kg/hour
- Weight: 100kg
- Size(L*W*H): 460*165*285mm
- Oil Type: Palm Oil
- Core Components: Motor
- Advantage: Easy Operation
- Product name: Oil Press Machine
- Application: Oil Yield 98%
- Capacity: 50-500kg/hOUR
- Keyword: Mini Oil Expeller
- Used for: Edible Oil Making
Palm oil growing in Kalangala a threat to people’s lives
A palm oil growing project has been presented by proponents as source of income. However, environmental degradation concerns and land grabbing continue to dominate discussion in this area. In May 2013, Friends of the Earth International released a report indicating that the palm oil project was being promoted as a poverty-reducing endeavor, yet ...
Also, that although the oil palm project is promoted as a poverty-reducing endeavour, it has caused displacement, food insecurity and deforestation all these affect the mostly women, children and other disadvantaged groups. Thus, with oil palm expansion in Kalangala, local communities lose out to the interests of corporate capital.
Farmers count profits from palm oil fruits, Monitor
The Kalangala Palm Oil Project is the brainchild of Kalangala District Local Government. Outgrowers have planted 4, 828 hectares. On every acre, an average of 58 trees.
The Project will link these producers to financial institutions and provide them with technical support services. In Kalangala, the Project will support those smallholders already growing oil palm, to increase the productivity of their existing plantations; but it will not support an expansion in the area under production.
Scarcity, high cost of seedlings frustrate oil palm growers
Kalangala, Uganda, THE INDEPENDENT, The acute scarcity and high cost of seedlings are frustrating the anticipated expansion of the oil palm growing project in Kalangala district. With support from the government and International Fund for Agriculture Development-IFAD since the early 2000s, the communities in Kalangala undertook to grow palm oil growing as an …
Government is in advanced discussions with the International Fund for Agricultural Development to extend the oil palm project beyond Kalangala district. Since the inception of the oil palm project in 2005, Kalangala, which is made of 84 islands, has been enjoying the monopoly of cultivating of oil palm in the country. An oil palm field in Kalangala After about 13 years of implementation of the ...
National Oil Palm Project (NOPP), International Fund
National Oil Palm Project (NOPP) Final project design report Executive Summary x Executive Summary 1. Rationale. The investment in oil palm in Kalangala, part-financed under the Vegetable Oils Development Project (VODP) and VODP2, has brought about a substantial and transformative socio-economic impact there.
An assessment of the impacts of oil palm in Kalangala
The project established plantations in Kalangala in 2002 with crude palm oil production starting in 2010, and plantations will begin to be established in Buvuma from 2019. The benefits are readily reported by the main donor IFAD and the sole company BIDCO, part of Oil Palm Uganda Ltd. partly owned by Wilmar.
- What is the Kalangala project?
- The Project will link these producers to financial institutions and provide them with technical support services. In Kalangala, the Project will support those smallholders already growing oil palm, to increase the productivity of their existing plantations; but it will not support an expansion in the area under production.
- Where will NOPP invest in oil palms?
- Drawing on this model, NOPP will concentrate its activities on smallholder Oil Palm development on the following hubs: Kalangala (Bugala and outlying islands, where it will consolidate the investments to date, but will not support an expansion in the area under OP production) Around Kiryandongo or in Buikwe (to be confirmed from studies)
- Who will be targeted by NOPP investments in oil palm production?
- Poor and vulnerable households will be directly targeted by NOPP investments in oil palm production (Component 1) and in alternative economic opportunities and mitigation of social risks (Component 2).
- What is the spill over effect of oil palm?
- As the spill over effect of oil palm increases, socio-economic activities and services will further develop.