Sustainable Oil Palm Farming

This portal is meant to help oil palm smallholders to increase the productivity of their plantations and income in a sustainable way. Sustainable intensification in smallholder oil palm plantations focuses on achieving good yields and profits, while maintaining soil fertility, minimising erosion, maintaining water quality, controlling pests, diseases and weeds through integrated pest management and using agrochemicals safely and in the smallest possible amounts. The recommendations in this handbook are in line with the principles and criteria of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, but are not sufficient to achieve RSPO certification.

Planting Material	Harvesting, Grading, Transport	Plantation Maintenance	Fertiliser Application	Pests and Diseases
1. Tenera, Dura, and Pisifera 2. Buying good planting material 3. Evaluating farmer’s planting material 4. Dealing with dura palms	1. Background 2. Categories of bunches 3. Grading and sorting process 4. Harvesting 5. Weighing and transportation 6. Road maintenance	1. Important terms 2. Storing and spraying chemicals 3. Identifying noxious weeds 4. Removing noxious weeds 5. Establishing a ground cover 6. Harvesting paths and access 7. Circle weeding 8. Pruning 9. Soil conservation	1. Background 2. Soil types 3. Fertiliser recommendations 4. Nutrient deficiency symptoms 5. Types of fertilisers 6. Applying nitrogen (N) 7. Applying phosphate (P) 8. Applying potassium (K) 9. Applying magnesium (Mg) 10. Applying boron (B) 11. Applying copper (Cu) and zinc (Zn) 12. Applying empty fruit bunches 13. Leaf sampling 14. Palm marking and leaf sampling	1. Background 2. General notes on pesticides 3. Pest and disease census 4. Rats 5. Rhinoceros beetle 6. Leaf-eating insects 7. Ganoderma 8. Other diseases

Acknowledgements

• This portal was comprised primarily from the online document: Into The Field: Oil Palm Farming in Indonesia. Lotte Woittiez and SNV.