Tag: oil palm cultivation

PORIM oil palm planting materials

Institiut Penyelidikan Minyak Kelapa Sawti Malaysia(PORIM)mempunyai jumlah bahan genetik kelapa sawit (Elaeis guineensis) yang besar. Kebanyakan daripada populasi biakbaka Deli duradantenera/pisifera tersebut telah diwarisi dari Jabatan Pertanian (DOA),yang dikumpul sejak 1920an. Takungan gen kelapa sawit PORIM telah diperkauakan melalui misi-misi pengumpulan germplasma di hutan belantara Afrika sejak 1973. Bahan-bahan yang terkumpul, samada yang telah dibangunkan […]

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Performance of oil palm on coral soils

The marked increase in oil palm hectarage in Sabah is largely due to the large tracts of land made available for oil palm planting. Out of the approximately one million hectares of land planted with oil palm, about 4246 ha are on coral soils located at FELDA Sahabat 23 and 24. These soils, derived from […]

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The Malaysian National Average Oil Palm: concept and evaluation

This paper develops the concept of the Malaysian National Average Oil Palm and evaluates the physiological characteristics required to produce the mean fresh fruit bunch (FFB) and mesocarp oil yields recorded in Malaysia between 1996-2000. The results are contrasted with those for oil palm in years of peak yield and with palms growing on a […]

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Oil palm planting in marginal soils: selected cases

Marginal soils were usually discounted in the past for planting of oil palm. Currently, the en-croachment into these areas is phenomenal as there is no more prime land for oil palm planting in the country. Innovations to counter such limitations have been successful for the cultiva-tion of oil palm but the cost can be high. […]

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Modelling oil palm yield based on source and sink

Although fruit bunch production by oil palm is often considered to be mostly dependent upon the ability of the plant to produce assimilates, the availability of an adequate sink is also of importance in optimizing yield. The model OPRODSIM initially simulated yield based on the assimilates remaining after the requirements of vegetative growth had been […]

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Structure, roles, challenges and opportunities of the oil palm industry in Indonesia: the significance of oil palm smallholders

This article aims at: (1) to give wider and more in-depth information related to the structural development of the oil palm industry in Indonesia, (2) to explain the structure and socio-economic roles of the oil palm industry in Indonesia, (3) to explore the challenges encountered and emerging opportunities in recent and future development of the […]

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