MPOB News
B5 Launch, Southern Region, Johor Palm Oil Familiarisation Programme 2013 Minister’s Visit to MPOB’s Sessang Research Station
Category: No. 67 (November 2013)
Land Evaluation for Oil Palm Cultivation using Geospatial Information Technologies
Land evaluation is the process of assessing the characteristics of a given piece of land to determine its suitability and viability for development. For oil palm cultivation, land development involves planning, land clearing, road and drainage networks development and oil palm planting. This article reports the results of land evaluation carried out in Sungai Asap, […]
Development of Half-track Articulated Tractor for Peat and Soft Ground
MPOB has recently redesigned the traction mechanism of the standard articulated tractor to get the optimum mobility on soft ground soils and peat areas. Blending the concepts of an articulated half-track and a traction mechanism, this prototype transporter shows a good potential to operate on soft ground. Since 1980s, many fabricators/importers had tested and evaluated […]
Sulphur Nutrition of Oil Palm in Indonesia – The Neglected Macronutrient
Sulphur (S) has received limited attention by researchers, agronomists and planters involved in oil palm cultivation, despite the fact that the requirement at tissue level – as indicated by published critical concentrations in Frond #17 – is the same for S and magnesium (Mg) (0.2%). The continuous trend toward S-free fertilisers (urea, rock phosphate, KCl, […]
Genetic Diversity of Commercial Oil Palm Seed Production Parents
A genetic diversity analysis was performed on 2039 dura seed palms and 25 pisifera pollen parents using eight Simple Sequence Repeat (SSR) markers. The heterozygosity of the pisifera germplasm (mostly AVROS) was higher than the Deli dura seed palms. Variation was found in heterozygosity among the Deli dura progenies, selected for seed production. As expected, […]