Oil Palm
by Bapak Hendra Sugianto in Bahasa Indonesia
A very young female inflorescence of oil palm that will grow and eventually be harvested as a fruit bunch, in Sabah, Malaysia.
by Dr. Kuan-Chun Lee
by Ms. Rachel Lim
October 9, 2018. Penang, Malaysia – The International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) has published a paper, "Fertilizer management effects on oil palm yield and nutrient use efficiency on sandy soil ...
Fertilizer management effects on oil palm yield and nutrient use efficiency on sandy soils with limited water supply in Central Kalimantan
Feeding the Palm: A Review of Oil Palm Nutrition
June 14, 2018. Penang, Malaysia – The International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) has just published four new pocket guides to help farmers/plantation managers acquire essential knowledge for the i ...
Leaf Sampling Unit | Soil Sampling | Plant Sampling | Growth Measurements
(Bagian 2 dari 4: Hasil dan Diskusi)
(Bagian 1 dari 4: Latar Belakang Intensifikasi Hasil dan BMP; Pendekatan dan Kerangka Analisis Data)
IPNI project in Ghana is successfully supporting plantations and smallholder producers to increase yields through best management practices.
November 15, 2017. Penang, Malaysia – Plantations routinely record vast amounts of data for oil palm blocks throughout their lifecycle. Plantation Intelligence (PI) applies the concept of business int ...
October 10, 2017. Penang, Malaysia – The effects of a series of best management practices, including site-specific nutrient management, canopy management and harvesting, was observed in six sites in In ...
IPNI has been engaged with the oil palm industry since the 1970s, supporting knowledge- and capacity-building. IPNI SEAP strengthens this support now with training. In July 2017, for the 1st time, IPN ...
Project code: MYS-07
Project code: IDN-30
Project code: IDN-28
Oil Palm Course: 4R Nutrient Stewardship in Oil Palm (taking place in Sabah, Malaysia)
Mr. Joseph Tek, President of Malaysian Estate Owners' Association (MEOA)
by Dr. Hsiao-Hang Tao
by Mr. Christopher Richard Donough
January 26, 2017. Penang, Malaysia – Assessing attainable yield of oil palm is the key for sustainable site-specific intensification of production. By calculating the difference between attainable yie ...
This project engages scientific authors, consultants, service providers, and other partners to identify suitable collaborators for IPNI SEAP, and then establish partnerships that add value to research ...
This is an incubator project that identifies and then tests new ideas for research and market development.
Project code: SEA-07
December 15, 2016. Penang, Malaysia – Like all farmers, oil palm planters learn from their own experiences. Yet, they are rarely sure if an exceptionally good or bad outcome is due to chance or a give ...
by Dr. Suan-Pheng Kam
November 7, 2016. Penang, Malaysia – There is a significant gap between actual yields achieved and the potentially attainable yield in most oil palm fields in Indonesia and Malaysia.
by Dr. James Cock
October 11, 2016. Penang, Malaysia – Penang-based independent oil palm agronomist, Chiu Sheng Bin recently reviewed and brought to the attention of planters, the 138-page “4R PLANT NUTRITION: A Manual ...
by Mr. Christopher Richard Donough
September 22, 2016. Penang, Malaysia – Fresh fruit bunches (FFB) contain significant amounts of plant nutrients such as nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), sulfur (S), and magnesium (Mg). Whe ...
This is the FIRST book dedicated to tropical peat and its behavior when cultivated with oil palm. It gives insight into the characteristics of tropical lowland peat soils and shows how they can be map ...
Oil Palm Course: 4R Nutrient Stewardship (back by popular demand)
by CHUNG Gait Fee, LEE Chin Tui and CHEE Kheng Hoy. Publisher: ACT. Edition: First edition (2016). Paperback: 394 pages. Language: English. ISBN: 978-983-43384-4-2. Dimensions: 15 cm x 21 cm x 1. 25 c ...
July 28, 2016. Penang, Malaysia – The International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI), a leader in global plant nutrition, is dedicated to responsible nutrient management, with initiatives addressing t ...
Our understanding of the importance of nutrients for sustainable oil palm production is incomplete. Extensive experimental work has been dedicated to understand yield response of oil palm to nutrients ...
This project delivers training on the application of 4R principles in all stages of the oil palm production cycle from the initial nursery stage to the productive mature stage.
Chua et al., MOSTA Oil Palm Best Practices Workshop, 2015
The oil palm sector in West Africa is developing extensively, yet plantation and small producers are performing well below their potential, with yields as low as one-third of the optimum. In order to ...
Paper presented at PIPOC 2013, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
IPNI Research Project Summaries - 2010 This past year we provided financial and in-kind support to over 100 projects around the world. Our scientists work closely with the researchers and cooperators ...
Nowadays there are several oil palm regions in Latin America with plantings of the OxG material, which is a cross of Elaeis oleifera (American oil palm) with E. guineensis (African oil palm). There ar ...
There is a large and unmet demand of local research in oil palm nutrition. With support of the national oil palm guild we are carrying out a fertilizer trial in Ecuador to find local reference values, ...
Results of 2007 Crop Nutrient Deficiency Photo Contest On this page, we highlight winners for each of the four categories. The entries were judged on the overall quality of the image as well as the su ...
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