Shack where palm kernels are cracked and the nuts separated and then crushed into paste

Processing area where the nut paste is boiled to extract the palm kernel oil.

Sacks of palm kernels waiting to be cracked and processed.

Worker feeding kernels into cracking adapter

Worker gathering cracked kernels and nuts into a pile.

Palm nuts being fed into crushing adapter to make paste.

Sorting machine to separate nuts from shells

Nuts being gathered while shells fall through screen to ground.

Palm nuts waiting to be crushed

Lister engine that powers the cracking and crushing adapters

Palm nut paste from crushed palm nuts.

Palm nut paste being boiled in a cauldron heated by burning palm kernel shells

Woman stirring the palm kernel paste.

Stoking the fire to keep the paste boiling

Palm kernel oil that was scooped from the top of the boiling paste and is now ladled into a pot to cool

Palm kernel oil that is very crude and includes bits of shell

The paste residue is piled after the oil has been extracted. This will be fed to pigs as feed.

View of women working over the boiling cauldrons

Long shot of palm kernel extraction area with piles of paste residue in the forground