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Wageningen University works with Malaysian Oil Palm Board (MPOB) and Van Hall Larenstein on increasing sustainability of oil palm production and processing as the knowledge to knowledge (K2K) component of the SCOP partnership between the governments of Netherlands and Malaysia. The objective of the project is to enhance resource use efficiency (land, water, nutrients, carbon) in field and mill. The roles of PPS are (1) to use PALMSIM to assess the impact of climate change on potential and water limited potential yields; (2) to investigate oil palm integration with black pepper, with pine apple and with livestock; (3) to investigate the effect of potassium deficiency on drought resistance;(4) to assess the most sustainable use of oil palm biomass in the field; (5) to assess possibility of starch extraction from the trunk after felling (with Wageningen Biobased Research). The project resulted in a number of MSc theses (by Adrien Francois Migeon, Sanne van Leeuwen, Natascha Grinnell and Eva Meijers) and in an EFTRN paper on intercropping. All these papers are available in the publications tab. Project output:
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K2K Malaysia (2017-2020)
Begin
2017
End
2020
Crop
Oil palm
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