More than 44,000 hectares of oil palm are due for replanting in 1993/1994. This would involve the felling of approximately 6 million palms. In  addition to the palm fronds available at replanting, fronds are also obtained from pruning during the harvesting fresh fruit brunches. In line with its mission, PORIM’s R&D efforts are geared towards […]

To maintain good productivity, oil palm as a perennial plantation crop has a high requirement for major nutrients. However, in practice P fertilizers are applied in much smaller amounts relative to other nutrients such as nitrogen and potassium. With the current planting of high yielding palms, improved agro-management practices, and increase in the use of […]

The terms palm oil mill effluent and palm oil sludge, and their acronyms POME and POS, are used interchangeably to refer to wastewater discharge from palm oil mills. Currently a miscellany of other terms are in use, based on the physical characteristics of the products, their ultimate use, and their capacity for polluting the environment. […]

Palm oil is one of the richest natural plant source of carotenes with the concentration from 500-700 ppm. The production of palm oil in 1992 was 6.4 million tonnes and it is projected that Malaysian production will reach over 8 million tonnes by the year 2000. Hence the potential availability of carotenes in the year […]

The Palm Oil Research Institute of Malaysia (PORIM) provides two services to the Malaysian palm oil industry which are directly related to quality assurance. First, in colaboration with the American Oil Chemists’ Society (AOCS), annual analytical crosschecks are carried out between laboratories termed the AOCS Smalley Check Sample Programme (for palm oil). In addition, PORIM […]