The oil palm subsector in Benin: essentially small-scale operations | Filiere huile de palme au Benin: une dynamique essentiellement artisanale
2000
Fournier, S. (Centre de Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement, Montpellier (France). Territoire Environ Acteurs, Programme Agriculture Familiale) | Adje, I. | Okounlola-Biaou, A.
The Beninese palm oil sector is quite specific in Guinea Golf's region: the craft part is much more important than the industrial one, and the processes used by the artisans are mainly manual. After analysing the sector historical evolution, this paper tries to explain the present situation, taking into account natural and technological data: a very stressed production peak (70 % of the production in 4 months) encourages the speculation on palm oil. Its transformation is one of the most profitable activities for Beninese women. Consequently the treated volumes per capita remain quite small, and they have not induced mechanisation. Moreover, craft (manual) processes extraction efficiency is not significantly different from semi-craft (mechanised) one; whatever the kind of fruits (natural or selected palm trees'fruits) may be
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