Hello everyone one, it's beautiful to finally found a home were you can share some of the cool experience out there in the field, working,engaging in every process that makes out something beautiful like the palm oil.
I once paid a visit to my brother who is living in the remote part of our village and he's such a great farmer, cause our family owns this large piece of land and as the tradition has been our fore father planted and cultivated these palm fruits, which somehow has become an economic tree here in Africa cause it is only from it one can produce the Red palm oil used for cooking and every other industrial use like making of soaps,and many many things from it.
And so I will be taking you all thru pictorial process I sure tried to cover it all
First of all we all set to go harvest some fruits with our harvester who uses a very sharp knife with what we call Ikpo to climb the palm tree
After cutting down the heavy bunch of fruits we had to start picking those fall out and taking the bunches to a park were we will keep them for a couple of days to ferment (lossen) to trash and then drive it the factory for milling
Some bunches can be as big as this 👇 and sometimes weigh upto 50kg, still we had to carry them on our head down to the park
Have to keep them for a couple of four days to let it lossen for trashing a process of hiring the stock so all the fruits lose out then we fly them so the seeds and the sharf go separate ways blown by the wind then we gather the seeds in a bag now drive them to the milling factory
The factory
Once in the factory we stuff them in a large cooking drum, cook them over night, by the following day we come for the milling proper
DAY TWO:The milling
By dawn we're ready to start milling, the factory workers on deck to assist, one of them scoops it from the cooking drum to the digester which will beat it and passed it thru an outlet
Then another uses the shovel to transfer the grinded palm fruits to the presser
the digester
the presser
Then we transfer the oil into a drum were another scoops it to a can here's were buyers come to buy at factory price which is relatively cheap
That's it, thanks for coming thru and never backing out
Much APPRECIATED 💯👍💞