Industrial Crops

Industrial crops is a crop grown or cultivated plant that used as raw material to produce goods that used in production sector rather than food for consumption and it will impact the economic in the country by providing product to lessens the need for us to imports goods from other country.


1) Oil Palm

• Largest crop in country
• World's leading vegetable oil crop and its very high yielding crop
• Hard kernel(seed) within a shell(endocarp) serounded by mesocarp
• Mesocarp made up 49% oil & 50% kernel
• Palm oil from mesocarp & palm kernel oil from kernel

ISSUES IN OIL PALM PLANTATION

i) Impacts on environment

• 90%of animals habits has been destroyed
• deforestation for palm oil contributes to climate change

ii) Impacts on animals 

• animals injured, killed and displaced during deforestation
• orangutans often killed and their babies taken to be sold, used for entertaiment in wildlife tourism parks or kept as pets 

iii) Impact on people

• child labor in remote and rural area 
• children have to carry heavy fruit,weed fields and spend hours time bent over to collect oil palm from plantation floor

2)Rubber

• the rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis come from Amazon Basin,Brazil
• second largest crop in country
• natural rubber(latex) & synthetic rubbber (made artificially in chemical plant or laboratory)
• most natural rubber come from Far East, synthetic from France, United States & Germany

3)Rice

• third largest crop in country
• oryza sativa is generally an annual grass 
• originated from Thailand, India & Southern China
• nowadays in wet tropical, semi-tropical, or warm temperate areas
• for human consumption and wheat 

4)Coconut

•  4th largest crop in country
•  originated from Americas
• natural source of medicinal aid(improves hormone balance and support thyroid)