IMC Limited in 1996 was granted a 25-year lease concession of the Delta state owned oil palm plantation estate and oil extraction mill at Nsukwa Delta State. This estate is a 3500 Hectares prime agricultural land located in the Ethiope river basin.

Both the plantation and the Mill were initiated and developed in 1975 by the then Bendel state government, and was managed and operated by the state owned Oil Palm Company (OPC) until the concession to IMC LIMITED

IMC Limited took over the plantation in a gross state of neglect, but has enviably turned it around to a well managed and maintained plantation.

The total arable land area of the plantation is 3500 Hectares, out of which 2,500 Hectares is cultivated. of this, 1800 hectares are adult fruit producing palms while 700 hectares are young palms ranging in age from 1yr to 6yrs. This is a deliberate, concise planting program, which has been ongoing since 2002.

With firm plans to sustain it. we envisage the development of at least 200 Hectares every year, thus we would have achieved full cultivation of the entire plantation area in years by 2013.

By this time the first generation of trees planted in 1975 (approximately 600 hectares) would have reached the age of reduced productivity of 40years requiring them to be felled and replanted . At this time our present development programs would be transposed to repopulation programs.

Each hectare contains approximately 139 trees. There are 250,200 adult trees in the plantation with capacity to produce an average of 15, 500 tons per annum of fresh palm Bunches (FFB) . However with the younger palms coming into adulthood, we would see a constant increase in production output to over 25,000 tons per annum over the next 10 years.

The oil palm mill is a 20 ton per hour fully automated process for the extraction of Fresh Palm Oil (FPO), comprising of weigh bridge, loading bays, sterilizing/cooking unit, threshing unit, 2no. Digesters, 2no. 10 ton presses, Clarification section, 2no.Bulk storage tanks, kernel threshing section, and 2no, steam boilers. The Mill is self sufficient in electricity production as it has 2no. 500Kva steam turbines.