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Tag: PALM OIL AND OIL PALM INDUSTRY-Malaysia
Malaysian palm oil extraction rate (OER): response to market and management factors.
The changed structure of the fresh fruit bunch (FFB) market has negatively affected the oil extraction rate (OER) of the Malaysian palm oil industry. This study, which employed econometrics to model the OER of the Malaysian palm oil milling industry, identified the fresh fruit market structure and mill maintenance as the two important OER influencing […]
Case study of a high income smallholder
Smallholders are capable of producing high oil palm yield comparable to that of estates if given the right guidance in the implementation of optimum agro-management practices. En. Ahmad Sidek, a smallholder from Kg. Tebuk Berihun, Sabak Bernam, has achieved more than 30 t ha-r yr-1 of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) from his three 2-ha-size oil […]