Malaysian palm oil extraction rate (OER) response to market and management factors | Tasa de extracción de aceite de palma (TEA) de Malasia: Una respuesta a factores de mercado y administración

English. The changed structure of the fresh fruit bunch (FFB) market has negatively affected the oil extraction rate (OER) of the Malaysian palm oil industry. This study, which employed econometrics to model the OER of the Malaysian palm oil milling industry, identified the fresh fruit market structure and mill maintenance as the two important OER influencing factors. Palm oil mills in Sabah and Sarawak in the eastern region of Malaysia, modelled by a dummy variable, indicated a significantly higher OER. The FFB market changed after the 1989/90 season because of the drastic increase in processing capacity. Competition for the raw material increased, bidding the prices upwards, i.e. the quality of harvested fruits suffered due to the lack of incentive to harvest the fruits properly. Fruit quality control is required to improve the OER. In addition, greater maintenanceof palm oil mills (POMs) is also needed to improve processing efficiency and maintain high OER.

Spanish; Castilian. El contenido de este estudio tiene por objeto analizar las oportunidades y amenazas para los productos de la Cadena de las Semillas Oleaginosas, Aceites y Grasas, en el marco de las negociaciones de la Organización Mundial de Comercio, OMC, y del Acuerdo de Libre Comercio de las Américas, ALCA, con el fin de proponer al Gobierno colombiano una estrategia de negaciones en dichos foros, que conduzca a la consolidación de este importante sector productivo de la economía del país, y a su inserción adecuada tanto en el comercio hemisférico como en el Mundo.