Oil palm breeders routinely carry out bunch analysis to estimate oil and kernel content in bunches (Rao et al., 1983). Normally, three to five bunches are analysed per palm and breeding trials involve thousands of experimental palms generating voluminous data. At present, bunch analysis data is captured manually in a record sheet and later the data is entered into a computer. This method is found to be time consuming, error-prone and expensive. MPOB has developed a direct data capturing system to overcome the above limitations.

Main Research: Mohd Isa Zainol Abidin