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Re:The afterlife of used hotel soap by samatman on Sunday April 24, 2022 @08:27PM (#31149583)
West Africa is the home of the oil palm, and doesn't need to go full Borneo to produce adequate amounts of fat for saponification.
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Re:The afterlife of used hotel soap by Scoundreller on Sunday April 24, 2022 @11:14PM (#31150440)
Maybe the home, but that doesn't mean productive. They're not producing enough to export, and seem to even be net importing it:

https://oec.world/en/profile/hs92/palm-oil

But maybe not being well represented here indicates a healthy domestic market.

(and this data can be suspect: Netherlands aren't growing any, but might do some processing of some kind or re-export)

https://www.indexmundi.com/agriculture/?commodity=palm-oil shows 84% of production being from Indonesia and Malaysia.

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