A camellia farm in Jiangxi province, China
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Changing some present vegetable oil crops with camellia crops might increase cooking oil manufacturing whereas lowering greenhouse fuel emissions, water use and pesticide use, based on a modelling examine.
That’s as a result of camellia is a high-yielding shrub that may thrive in locations the place another oil crops battle. The properties of camellia oil, often known as tea seed oil, counsel it may be one of many more healthy oils, however it’s presently little-known and hardly used outdoors China.
