The palm oil yield per hectare is estimated at 8 tons per year at most.

Additionally, the profit farmers make per hectare is around 3.4tons per year.

There are other factors that also affect the profitability of your palm oil
business such as the effect of pests and other diseases. Hence, this should
be taken into consideration because it can affect the overall profit of your
business.

Importantly, the age of the palm tree also has an effect on the yield. Normally,
the peak production period of oil palm plantation is between seven (7) and
eighteen (18) years after which it started to decline.

How to Calculate the Capacity of Palm Oil Mill You Need?

Palm Oil is concluding the Fresh Palm Fruit Oil and Palm Kernel Oil. Generally, whatever you want
to build the oil plant from fresh fruits or from kernel, you can calculate the capaicty as the following
steps:
    The oil palm grows very fast, it can harvest fruits about 2~2.5 years after transplanted.
    Per-hectare land should plant about 140 palm trees in general, each palm tree can produce
about 20 tons fresh palm fruits annually.
    Basic the real running condition of the plant, 12.5% of orchard output are defined maximum
consumption of raw material each month.
    The producing time should be caculated according to 25 days each month. Working time
should be 20 hours one day.

For example, th palm oil plant capacity for 2000 hectares plantation or orchard is
calculated as follow: 
2000 x 20 x 12.5% / 25 / 20 = 10 ton/hour

The typical processes to produce palm oil include palm bunches reception, palm bunches sterilization,
palm threshing, palm fruit digestion, palm pulp pressing, palm oil clarification, palm oil drying and palm oil
storage and packing. 
    Palm Fruit Reception - Harvest the palm fruit from the oil palm plantation and remove the fruitlets
    Palm Oil Sterilization - Use water or steam t for palm fruit sterilization
    Palm Oil Threshing - Separate the palm fruitlets from the bunches by rotation or vibration
    Palm Oil Digestion - Crush the palm fruit to maximize the oil rate
    Palm Pulp Pressing - Utilize palm oil processing machines to extract palm oil
    Palm Oil Clarification - Remove foreign impurities from the final palm oil to get the crude palm oil
    Palm Oil Storage - The final crude palm oil will be stored in specialized tank for further selling or
transportation. 

In the process of pressing palm oil, many machines are used. Such
as sterilization, thresher, palm oil press machine, vibrating screen, oil
clarification tank, plate filter and oil drying system. What is their name?
What's the effect? Sterilization tank: The sterilization tank is a machine for
steaming palm fruit bunches.

How much does it cost to start a palm oil milling business?

The equipment price is around N7,100,000 to N10,650,000 for establishing a 5-10
ton/day small palm fruit oil milling factory. The palm oil production line includes three
main sections which are the palm oil processing plants, palm oil refinery plants, and
palm oil fractionation plants which all have their own various different machines.