These palm seeds are ready to be pressed. The fruit itself is made into palm oil while the nut is used for something called palm kernel oil. These are a local variety that are grown by smallholders, however in their recently granted concessions Herkales Farms plans to grow genetically selected varieties sold to them by IRAD, a national institute that has previously claimed via a controversial ecological assessment, that the Herakles planned palm oil plantation area constitutes only secondary degraded forest.