Olam tries to practice what it preaches so on the other side of the world, at a tomato processing plant in California it partners with General Mills to use tomato skins and seeds as the main source of nitrogen to produce 10,000 tonnes of yield-boosting, organic compost for tomato growers, generating additional revenue by adding value to agricultural waste.
Each hectare will yield four tonnes of fruit, fetching 800 Rupiah (47 pence) a kilo .I used to grow chilli, but palm oil is a very economical crop," he declares.
If all goes well, when the harvest ends in mid-March, the region's 2,300 hectares of bergamot groves will have yielded 24,000 tonnes of fruit, to produce around 120 tonnes of oil.
It was estimated that about 7500 tonnes of MSW yielded close to 20 MW of electricity.
Tomatoes are a high-yield crop, with up to 500 tonnes of the fruit per hectare being harvested in some countries, and cheap to grow.
Fig. 10 Production of yield in tonnes per hectare of different districts Table 1 Results of PAM algorithm Low-moderate production High production Moderate-high production Mandya, Raichur, Gadag, Gulbarga, Bellary Koppal, Dharwad, Haveri, Bijapur, Bidar, Chamarajannagar, Belgaum, Tumkur Davangere, Shimoga, Chikmagalur, Bangalore.
Fields that once yielded tonnes of rice are now a mass of tangled weeds and grass.
Annual production of EFB in Ghana can be estimated based on annual production of approximately 3,135,000 tonnes of fresh oil palm fruit bunches (calculation based on average yield of 11 tonnes per hectare) (Toledano et al. 2004).
A single cell culture should in principle yield 20,000 tonnes of "cultured beef".
A single sample of stem cells could, he reckons, yield 20,000 tonnes of "cultured beef".
It would be the single biggest foreign investment in India ever, and yield 12m tonnes of steel a year.
