Oil Palm Forum

History

The Oil Palm Platform was established on February 28, 2005 by individual oil palm agronomists and technical experts from various companies and organizations recognizing the need to integrate information, tools, and technologies into a coherent framework for knowledge-based crop and nutrient management.

Vision

Members share a common vision that oil palm estates need to be economically feasible as well as socially and environmentally responsible to become part of a sustainable future of the oil palm industry. The ecological intensification of crop and nutrient management offers substantial opportunities to achieve this goal.

Objectives

To assess the evolving needs of planters in crop and nutrient management.
To exchange information and experience in crop and nutrient management.
To provide practical information, technical references, guidelines, and support to the oil palm industry.
To generate, integrate, and aggregate tools, technologies, and knowledge.
To promote the fi ve key principles of crop and nutrient management along with evolving strategies for their implementation.

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Principles in crop and nutrient management

The Oil Palm Platform aims at achieving a consensus on crop and nutrient management principles among researchers and planters providing management options that can be used to develop site-specific solutions following the same, generic principles.

Decision-making based on relevant information.
Development of management units based on soil and plant surveys.
Best management practice for optimal economic yield.
Plant-based determination of nutrient needs.
Need-based fertilizer use for effective and environmentally sound use of nutrient.

Information, Tools, and Technologies

Portal and discussion forum (www.oil-palm.info).
Strategies for the implementation of crop and nutrient management principles providing options.
Integrated solutions for the management of agronomic information comprising the use of agronomic database, GPS, GIS, utilities, publications, and training material.
Case studies with successful examples of knowledge-based crop and nutrient management.
Collaborative projects.