My Neighborhood Watch #49 - Reporting Events Around us

Hello friends of steem4Nigeria community, it's exciting to be participating in the new edition of My Neighborhood watch. For this week's neighborhood watch, I will be presenting an interesting view of what the rural area of Nigeria looks like...Take a walk with me.

In every country we have rural settlements and Urban settlements, and most times people in the urban settlement have never lived in the rural areas before. I have lived mostly in the urban settlement but I have travelled to the rural area every time I get the chance to.

I got the chance to travel to the rural area and I got to see the production of palm oil. When I was younger, we used crude tools to make palm oil. I remember my grandmom boiling the palm fruits in big pots and then I will help to pound. Pounding the palm fruits was always difficult and demanded a special method to get the desired result. It was always not easy making palm oil, but we did enjoyed doing it. It was always fun and exciting when a lot of people are doing the production.

I will be reporting how palm oil is produced in the rural area today and it is lovely to see that they are now using machines to produce this oil.

Palm oil is a common commodity in Nigeria. 60-70% of traditional food cooked in Nigeria uses palm oil.

I watched diligently how the production was made. The palm fruits which were gotten from its trees and were carefully selected and kept in a basin.

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These young boy helped his parents to pick and select the palm fruits.

After which a fire was set and the palm fruits was boiled. The fire was really hot, felt like a furnace. Soon the fruits were checked to see if it got soft.

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After some minutes, the palm fruits were scooped out from the pot. It wasn't an easy task doing that, but they did it with expertise and made it look so easy.

The palm fruits were poured into a grinding machine, and work began. The man in charge of grinding was giving out perfect instructions to them, as there should be no mistakes during the process.

This guys were soaked completely in oil and the happiness they exude was second to none. I looked and was bewildered by the level of smiles and happiness they had even while going through a tough task. Life looks a little bit easy for us in the urban area but we are always working and working..no time for happiness and having a good time with family. These people were together working and smiling so hard.

The palm fruit were grinded into a paste and then it was poured into a suppressing machine. This machine pressed the oil out from the mixture. It was a wonderful process..and I watched with diligence to see the end product.

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Soon oil was spilling in large quantities into the basin. The oil were allowed to cool and stored in rubbers.

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The residue was reused and grinded again with another set of palm fruits. This is done to make sure that they get more oil from it. The brilliance shown was great and I knew it was gotten from years of experience and expertise.

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The palm kernel too is useful to them. So they separated the kernel from the chaff. The chaff is usually used to make fire and sometimes used as feed to farm animals. Every residue was kept safe. And the process continued for hours. They did it until they got large basins of oil

The process was a lovely one, I really enjoyed being in the rural area once more. I had a great time with them and they were very funny. I took a lot of pictures of the process.

This is the event that happened around me...would love to read the events that happened around you @imohmitch and @vudeme123.

Thanks for reading my post, I hope you were educated on the process of making palm oil.