Oil Palm Nursery Management

Replanting provides an opportunity for the estate to make improvement on the present system such as accessibility for mechanization and re alignment of road drain intensity planting density and it also can solve the harvesting problem low yield and prevailing prices of palm product.

Oil palm nursery management. It can occupy a field garden greenhouse or other form of growing space. Management of oil palm nurseries 1. Growers buy young seedlings which already have four or five leaves. The planter jan 1999.

Its director neville burman is in a unique position to be able to offer complete end to end solutions from nursery establishment and management plantation establishment and management to the development of processing facilities to produce optimum value from the fruit the. Used as raw material in the process of palm oil production as a form of safe edible vegetable oil used in many food and non food products. As early bearing and high yields in the field are mainly dependent on production of uniformly good and healthy seedlings from a nursery it follows that good nursery management would be required to achieve the latter. A plant nursery is a place where any kinds of plants are grown for the sake of being moved or transplanted later.

Therefore it is crucial that planting materials that are sourced from nursery and planted in fields are of superior quality. A guide to oil palm nurseries. Seedlings can be bought from research stations or extension services. The agricultural standards committee deems it necessary to establish the standard for good agricultural practices for oil palm to be used as guidance to oil palm growers.

3 rd edition incorporated society of planters ktjala lurnpur nursery practices for production of superior oil palm planting materials. Palm oil plantation management and consulting. Land with herbicides glyphosate spray dose of 1 5 to 2 liters ha or mixed with 2 4 diamine 0 5 l ha before shipping ground to nurseries. Usually the plants grown in such a nursery are flowers or.

Although area wise nursery is small in size it houses large densely populated seedlings at the juvenile stage needing great. 0il palm replanting is normally carried out after a period of about 25 to 30 years economic life span. Nursery practices for production of superior oil palm planting materials. It is difficult for a grower to make the seeds of oil palms germinate.

Each palm in an oil palm plantation is a revenue generating unit. The oil palm nursery.