关键词: 油棕, 生产贸易, 时空格局, 趋势

Abstract: Oil palm is one kind of woody oil crops whose yield per unit area
is highest, it is known as "the king of world's oil". The proportions of its
production and trading volume are the highest in all kinds of oil crops, which
has huge economic benefits. This research studies the origin of the world palm
oil and geographical spread. It also analyzes oil palm production and trade
situation in recent years. The result shows: oil palm originates in Africa,
and spreads to the vast tropical areas of Asia尧Africa and Latin America, now
it forms three major producing areas, which are Central and West Africa尧
Southeast Asia尧Central and South America, it also has the basic pattern of ten
consumption areas such as India尧China尧the European Union. According to the
research, the trade trend of oil palm production can be forecast, which gets
three points: oil palm's acreage and consumer market will continue growing,
new technology will boost oil palm yield and the sustainable use of oil palm
will further to be strengthened.

Key words: oil palm, production and trade, spatial and temporal pattern trend