Palm oil is an insanely productive plant. It’s why it has been so successful. It gets incredibly high yields – much higher than any of the other options. One hectare of palm currently gives us 2.8 tonnes of oil in return. Olives give us 0.3 tonnes. Coconuts give us 0.26 tonnes – that’s 10 times less. Groundnuts, just 0.18 tonnes.
