Estimación de los costos de extracción de aceite de palma E. guineensis en 2019 para plantas de beneficio ubicadas en la Zona Norte

In the Colombian oil palm agroindustry, there is a lack of information regarding the specifics of the costs in which an oil palm mill incurs in order to extract crude palm oil (CPO) from fresh fruit bunches (FFB). The goal of this study was to help filling this gap through proposing a method for estimating the unit costs, which was used for estimating the variable costs in 2019 at mills from the Colombian Northern Zone. In total, nine mills participated in this study. Altogether these mills crushed 1,236,744 tons of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) during 2019, which corresponded to 71% of the total amount of FFB crushed by mills in the Northern Zone during 2019. It must be highlighted that in order to determine the variables used for gathering data, the period to consider and, how to construct indicators; there were various meetings among oil mill managers and researchers from the Colom- bian Oil Palm Research Center (Cenipalma). Results indicate that according to their participation on variable costs, labor represents 48%, maintenance 37%, water and electric power (15%). Additionally, the costs of extracting the crude palm oil (CPO) from a ton of FFB ranged from COP 29,555/t FFB to COP 45,388/t FFB. Consequently, the costs of extracting a ton of CPO ranged from COP 143,749/t CPO to COP 220,761/t CPO. Finally, an interesting result indicated that the installed capacity of the mill, which is often believed to be the most important factor in determining the costs of crushing FFB because of economies of scale, actually plays a secondary rol and it was found that the source of energy ends up being the main driver of the reduction in milling costs.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Guerrero Sánchez, Anderson E., Muñoz Zambrano, Héctor S., Obando Coral, Doris del S., Marsiglia R., Edwin A., Gantiva S., Juan C., Muñoz M., Javier A., Garavito J., Wilson F., Reina U., Edwin M., Cala M., Silvia L., Montoya Mauricio, Mosquera
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	spa
Published:	Fedepalma 2020
Online Access:	https://publicaciones.fedepalma.org/index.php/palmas/article/view/13229
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