In general, around 200 seeds are needed to have sufficient viable seedlings to plant one hectare of land, taking into consideration the thinning and culling required prior to planting to ensure only vigorous growing palms are planted. Seed suppliers are ASD De Costa Rica, S.A in Costa Rica, as well as from the Indonesian Oil Palm Research Institute (formerly Marihat), PT Socfindo and PT Sampoerna Agro Tbk in Indonesia...
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PALM OIL KNOWLEDGECULTIVATION
HARVESTING
The objective of a good harvesting technique is to obtain the maximum amount of good quality oil in the most economical manner... OPTIMIZING THE USE OF EMPTY FRUIT BUNCH (EFB)
NURSERY PRACTICES FOR PRODUCTION OF SUPERIOR OIL PALM PLANTING MATERIALS
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Harvesting takes place throughout the year and there is no specific harvesting season. The oil palms bear fruit all year round without much seasonality, although fruit production may be subject to change due to climatic variations.
The oil palm is one of the most versatile oilseed crops grown in the tropical world. Besides palm oil and palm kernel oil, the oil palm industry also generates a number of by-products most of which have well established uses. Palm kernel cake, for instance, is an established animal feed; the fibre and shells are burnt as fuel in the boilers to raise steam and the residual boiler ash is used for surfacing estate roads; bunch ash is a valuable potash fertiliser whilst the pruned fronds and, to a lesser extend, the trunks and stumps, are recycled in the field as organic matter. In order to reduce the cost, the maximization of by-product utilization is being further developed. One of them is Empty Fresh Bunch (EFB). The application of empty fruit bunch (EFB) as an organic mulch in oil palm has been receiving increasing attention in recent years. Mulching is the application of materials on the surface to reduce soil temperature and conserve soil moisture to improve growth and yield of plants besides supplying varying amount of nutrients as they decompose...
Superior planting material is one of the basic factors affecting the success of an oil palm plantation. Good nursery management would be required to ensure the production of good and healthy seedlings from a nursery in order to achieve early bearing and high yields in the field. As the production of superior oil palm planting materials is fully dependent on attention to details at all nursery stages, closely proven standards and procedures are discussed with particular emphasis on oil palm nursery maintenance to achieve the same...
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