Processing and Development of Frying Oil From Fruit of Some Varieties of Dwarf Coconut

Fruits of Dwarft coconut commonly are used as young tender (8 months of fruit) for fresh coconut water and raw materials in processing of some conventional products such as klapeertart and coconut jam. Recently, the mature fruit (11-12 months of fruit) are not utilized yet. It could be used as raw materials for making frying oil through heating method. It is estimated about 7.1-8.4 L of frying coconut oil can be obtained from 200 nuts of Dwarf coconut fruit. If 1.0 ha of coconut area could be planted with 200 trees of Dwarft coconut and it produced 17,500-20,500 nuts/ha/year, local price of coconut frying oil at farmer level is Rp 20,000/L, so the farmer earning could reach Rp 14,000,000-Rp 16,400,000. The oil from coconut is the healthiest oil in the world, due to its unique properties. Lauric acid, the main fatty acid in coconut oil, was proven for its beneficial effect for human health. The fruit of Dwarft coconut is easier to be harvested compared to Tall coconut, because its tree is shorter. Processing of healthy frying oil from fruit of Dwarft coconut through heating method could be apllicated in small or farmers group level

Mekanisasi Pertanian Dalam Perspektif Pengembangan Bahan Bakar Nabati Di Indonesia

Perspective Agriculture Mechanization in Relation to Bio fuel Development in IndonesiaThe price and demand of energy and food has been increase faster. Potential shortage of fossil fuel became a serious problem in developing agriculture mechanization. Therefore, bio fuel is an alternative way to solve the problem. Bio energy can be produced in solid, gas or liquid form. However, the liquid form is the most easy to be used. Indonesia has around 22.4 million ha of land to grow up bio fuel crops. 7.1 million ha for seasonal crops and 15.3 million ha for annual crops. Potential of energy of biomass from agriculture is around 360.99 million GJ. Biomass can be converted to be liquid bio fuel. This namely technology for second generation bio fuel or biomass to liquid process. Biomass can also be bended to be biogas by using anaerob digestation reactor. Biogas can be used to operate drier machine in villages. To overcome fossil fuel scarcity problem in the future, agriculture mechanization development should be consider bio fuel as an alternative energy source. Research of agriculture mechanization, then should be directed to the machines that can be operated using bio fuel and other biomas energy