Intelligent Grading Systems for Oil Palm Fruits Using Soft Computing - Patkar Gaurang Sitaram - Bog

The native of Oil Palm (Elaeis Guineensis) is west Africa, which is commercially
planted in Nigeria, Malaysia, Zaire, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, and so on, and to a little
extension in Ghana, Central America, and southern India. Oil palm is concerned as
the greatest oil yielding cropper that has the ability to generate up to more than 8
tonnes (per hectare). The entire world production of palm oil is 8.5 million tonnes. In
India, there has a great scope for huge scale oil palm cultivation, mostly in Karnataka,
Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Orissa and Assam. Nowadays, the cultivation
of oil palm is limited to the government-owned plantations as well as the undertaking
of the public sector located in Andamans and Kerala. In Kerala, totally there has 3705
hectare for oil palm cultivation and similarlyAndamans have 1500 ha. Further, the
cultivation is also very much effectively grown in parts of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka,
Goa, Maharashtra, Orissa and Assam.
(Nor et al., 2015; Raju and Sitorus, 2017) As said before, the origin of Oil Palm
(Elaeis guineensis) is West Africa, where the rain forest areas. The processing of oil
palm fruits to get the edible oil was practiced in Africa, which was for more than a
thousand years. The produced oil that is extremely flavored as well as colored is the
necessary element in most of the usual West African cuisine. Still, the practicing of
traditional models is quite complex and ineffective.