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  • How big is a palm oil farm in Ghana?
  • Average palm oil farm size in Ghana is approximately 2.7 hectares (MASDAR, 2011). Côte d’Ivoire’s small landholders palm oil area is approximately 220,000 hectares (73 percent of total) and large-scale industrial estates area is about 80,000 hectares (27 percent of total).
  • How many oil palm trees are there in Ghana?
  • GOPDC's oil palm plantations in Ghana cover approximately 1860000 trees, spread over a radius of 30 km at the Kwae and Okumaning estates in the Eastern Region. About 13000 ha of these plantations have been developed for around 6000 outgrowers.
  • How many palm oil mills are there in Ghana?
  • MASDAR (2011) reports there were more than 1,200 small-scale processing mills in Ghana producing approximately 60 percent of the national palm oil output. Côte d’Ivoire has 16 large-scale mills competing with numerous small-scale (artisan) and medium-scale mills (AIPH, 2022).
  • Where to grow oil palm in Ghana?
  • The most suitable areas for oil palm cultivation in Ghana are in the Western, Central and Eastern Regions. Large oil palm plantations (nucleus estates and outgrowers) and processing mills are located in these regions.
  • What are the major oil palm plantations in Ghana?
  • Some of the large-scale plantations are Benso Oil Palm Limited (BOPP) and Norwegian Oil Palm Ghana Limited (NORPALM) in the Western Region, Twifo Oil Palm Plantation Limited (TOPP) in the Central Region, and the Ghana Oil Palm Development Company (GOPDC) at Kwae near Kade in the Eastern Region.
  • Is the Ghanaian oil palm industry a competitive advantage?
  • The economic sustainability of the Ghanaian oil palm industry is competitive advantages for the oil palm industry expansion. Malaysia. The cost competitiveness of Ghana and the sub-region pr oducers has been assessed, relative to the producers of Indonesia and Malaysia. against USD 400-450/MT in West Africa.