Intelligent Grading Systems for Oil Palm Fruits Using Soft Computing

The native of Oil Palm (Elaeis Guineensis) is west Africa, which is commercially

planted in Nigeria, Malaysia, Zaire, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, and so on, and to a little

extension in Ghana, Central America, and southern India. Oil palm is concerned as

the greatest oil yielding cropper that has the ability to generate up to more than 8

tonnes (per hectare). The entire world production of palm oil is 8.5 million tonnes. In

India, there has a great scope for huge scale oil palm cultivation, mostly in Karnataka,

Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Orissa and Assam. Nowadays, the cultivation

of oil palm is limited to the government-owned plantations as well as the undertaking

of the public sector located in Andamans and Kerala. In Kerala, totally there has 3705

hectare for oil palm cultivation and similarlyAndamans have 1500 ha. Further, the

cultivation is also very much effectively grown in parts of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka,

Goa, Maharashtra, Orissa and Assam.

(Nor et al., 2015; Raju and Sitorus, 2017) As said before, the origin of Oil Palm

(Elaeis guineensis) is West Africa, where the rain forest areas. The processing of oil

palm fruits to get the edible oil was practiced in Africa, which was for more than a

thousand years. The produced oil that is extremely flavored as well as colored is the

necessary element in most of the usual West African cuisine. Still, the practicing of

traditional models is quite complex and ineffective.