Copra (Dried Coconut Meat)

Copra (Dried Coconut Meat)

One of the requirements of plants growing coconut palm is a low ground elevation. This requirement is fulfilled in the region of Indonesia, which has a very long coastline. No wonder if there are many coconut plantations in Indonesia. Indonesia is a country that has an area of palm planting area of the largest in the world, amounting to 3.7 million hectares. Unfortunately, masuh Indonesian exports of coconut products under the Philippines. Copra and coconut oil is a plant oil derived products are very important.

Processing begins with the preparing coconuts copra. Copra is dried coconut meat. Making copra from coconut meat has a high economic value if it has a large crop, because it can be durable than wet coconut. To make copra of very good quality and it gouged out, cleaned the dilkukan then is; dried. Furthermore first coconut copra drying on will greatly affect the quality of copra.

The dried coconuts, copra good should only have a water content of 6% - 7% that are not easily attacked by pests. Copra making process is to separate the fruit from the shell with the fruit of her shell gouged. Then dried by means of:

1 Drying with drying in the hot / sunlight. (SUN DRYING)
This method takes a long time 5-7 days, very dependent on the weather conditions, and the quality of copra was often unstable, moldy, water content less than the maximum. 2 Drying in the Furnace.
This method is a technique that is widely grown in copra farmers. Coconut meat put into the furnace-the fumigation by burning coconut husk or shell underneath. This technique requires 3 daily. 7

3 Ways Drying hooded plastic
This method is better than the usual drying, because it uses a plastic cover, so that the heat can be absorbed longer in plastic, in this way, the quality of copra can be maintained from fungal attack which could cause a decline in the quality of copra. Only in this way requires an additional cost of making homes and plastic drying. Drying time was also very dependent on the weather, the drying time between 5-7 days.

4. oven
This copra drying technique is the best to produce copra. The process is composed of wet coconut in oven cabinets that have been available, then heated in a closed condition; to the heat flow in the room with a temperature of 40 degrees Celsius to 80 degrees Celsius. The heat generated from the combustion of biomass produces smoke and heat, then flown by a blower to flow through copra drying oven.

9 Damage that occurs in copra is generally caused by bacteria and fungi attacks. The attack easily occur if the high moisture content in copra, air humidity reaches 80% or more and the temperature reached 30 ° C atmosphere. Cendawa are often attacked copra is cendawa Rhizopus sp, Aspergillus niger, and Penicillium glaucum. 10 Coconut oil is an oil produced from coconuts. Coconut oil can be extracted from fresh coconut meat or extracted from dried coconut meat. L / O / G / O 11 Coconut oil has many benefits for humans. Coconut oil is commonly used for various industrial raw materials or as minyka fried. In addition, coconut oil can be used to maintain health and cure various diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, cholesterol, cancer, and others. This is partly because of oil palm has a high lauric acid content.
The technique of making a good coconut oil can improve and maintain the quality and quantity of oil produced. The technique of making coconut oil:

1 How wet,

2 How to dry,

By Wet Technique,  Coconut oil is extracted from fresh coconut meat. Making oil by the wet method can be done through making coconut milk beforehand or can also be pressed from the coconut meat after frying. Coconut milk is the liquid extracted from the grated coconut with water. When the coconut milk silenced, it will happen slowly separating the rich with the poor oil with the oil. Section referred to as the oil rich cream, and the poor are called to skim oil. Lighter than skim the cream, because it is at the top of the cream, and skim the bottom.

To produce oil from done in several ways, namely:
a. Traditional Wet Method
b. Wet Fermentation Method
c. Centrifugation wet method
d. Wet Frying way with 15 wet process can

1.2. Dry Technique.
 Technique is prmbuatan dry coconut oil extracted from dried coconut meat (copra). To produce oil from the wet process can be done in several ways, namely: a. Mechanical extraction (way pressed)

 Solvent extraction using
Thus, the process of making coconut oil carried by oil producers in the strip that grow coconut trees or palm plantations.