Traditional palm oil processing in rural Guinea

Traditional palm oil processing in rural Guinea is a hard work. Most of the palm oil processing work is done by handworking. Far away from large scale industrial palm oil production, the traditional palm oil processing in rural Guinea is inefficiency and waste is serious, most of palm oil can't be extracted efficiently.

In Guinea, there are different palm oil extraction methods, but all these methods consist in the following palm oil processing steps: treatment harvested palm fruit bunches; separate palm fruit from palm fruit bunches; boiling palm fruit; palm fruit digesting and pressing; separate palm kernel ; red palm oil clarification; kernel drying.

The below photos is Guinea traditional palm oil processing process:

This picture tell us the traditional "red oil" processing process in rural Guinea, and women plays a key role in the process of making palm oil.