Month: February 2020

Many short-term crops have been found to be suitable for intercropping in double-row avenue oil palm including sweet potato. Sweet potato is an important food crop belonging to the Family Convolvulaceae.  It has high nutritive value because the storage roots are a good source of carbohydrates, sugars, calcium, iron and other minerals and vitamins, particularly … Read more

In Malaysia, sheep is reared based on the traditional way, where they are allowed to roam freely in search of their feed. As a result, sheep production is known to be not an economically viable venture. For many years, sheep production in this country has not shown any significant improvement in comparison to the rest … Read more

Low embryogenesis rates have long been the point of contention for large scale ramet production ventures. This is further exacerbated by the fact that tissue culture of the oil palm to date is still a random process. This implies that laboratories will have to practice ‘basket sampling’ to meet the demand for clonal plantlets. Ong-Abdullah … Read more

Jessenia palm are being gwon in the form of open-pollinated families mainly at MPOB Research Stations in an effort to evaluate at MPOB Research Stations in an effort to evaluate their yield performance and agronomic traits. Today, MPOB houses the world’s largest oil palm germplasm collection. Useful traits from this collection are being incorporated into … Read more

The global palm oil industry generates about 85 million tonnes of vegetation liquor annually which are discarded as palm oil mill effluent (POME). Malaysia alone produces about 45 million tonnes of POME. Discharge of the untreated waste from any edible oil process, including for palm oil, is highly polluting and this continues ti be of … Read more