Palm oil: a growing competitor to soy oil: INCREASING PALM PLANTATIONS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA COULD IMPACT WORLD OIL SUPPLY

摘要

BRAZIL'S HUGE EXPANSION of soybean acreage - up 43 percent from 1990 to 2000, then up another 74 percent from 2000 to 2010 - has produced a lot of headlines and contributed mightily to a major increase in world soybean oil output. Meanwhile, more aggressive growth in world palm oil^production has drawn far less attention. The numbers tell the tale. World soybean oil production climbed 70 percent from 1990 to 2000 and 58 percent more by 2010. Big as those increases are, palm oil/palm kernel oil eclipsed them, up 118 percent in the decade of the '90s and 96 percent between 2000 and 2010.