Smallholder Oil Palm Handbook Module 3: Plantation Maintenance

Author(s)
Woittiez, Lotte; Haryono Sadikin, Sri Turhina, Hidayat Dani, Tri Purba Dukan & Hans Smit
Keywords
Good management practices, yield, Indonesia

Description 
The smallholder handbooks outline good agronomic management practices for oil palm smallholders, with a focus on Indonesia. The handbooks are written in English and cover five topics in five modules: planting material, harvesting, plantation maintenance, fertilisers, and pests & diseases. The handbooks also provide background information, for example on basic oil palm genetics and plant nutrition. The handbook is freely available online in PDF form. 

  • Module 1: Planting Material
  • Module 2: Harvesting, Grading, Transport
  • Module 3: Plantation Maintenance
  • Module 4: Fertiliser Application
  • Module 5: Pests and Diseases
Publisher
SNV Indonesia and Wageningen University & Research
Year
2016
Crop
Oil palm
Country
Indonesia
License type
Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0