Basically ,oil palm is a plantation agriculture ,a form of commercial farming whereby crops are grown for sale.It requires a large area of lands and a troprical climate ,countries that lie between Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn (e.g Malaysia) .Those are countries which recieve high anuual temperature and rainfall.
Also,a large amount of capital and large labour are required in terms of building roads,buying machinery and building factories to process the crops harvested from the plantations,including fertilisers and pesticides as crops uses up the nutrients from the land quickly and to prevent the pest from destroying the plantation,therefore,it is used large quantities .As for labour,large number are needed due to the large size of plantation.Hence ,the output per unit is usually low since it covers a wide area of land.
