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Oil Palm - Miscellaneous

The document discusses management practices for oil palm gardens including watering, mulching, fertilizing, bunch protection, harvesting techniques, intercropping options, deficiencies, diseases, and pest control measures.

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Oil Palm - Miscellaneous

The document discusses management practices for oil palm gardens including watering, mulching, fertilizing, bunch protection, harvesting techniques, intercropping options, deficiencies, diseases, and pest control measures.

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Oil Palm- Miscellaneous

Management of Garden

Watered Basin- 3 meter Diameter

Ideal basins

Mulching, Irrigating and maintaining Cleanliness

Ideal Basin around the trunk

Fertilizer application in basin

Mulching of basin with fronds

Till late second year of age, Flower buds should be nipped off

Wire net covered Bunchprotection from Birds-dogs

Harvesting

Stage at which it should be harvested

Harvesting with Chisel attached to pole

Harvesting by Chisel attached to a rod

Harvesting in a tall Palm tree

Harvesting in a tall tree

Possibilities

Plots survived after River floods

Green bunches of FFB

Water stagnation under Wet-land condition

Terraced planting

Frond base stacked and sold/ used as fuel

Goat rearing in older Palm gardens

Ideal Loop system in Drip layout

Micro-sprinklers in Palm garden

Don ts

Burning of fronds inside the garden

Excessive pruning of Palm fronds

Palms Etiolating due to shade/ intercropped with taller trees

Roots pruned because of digging

Water stress- more than 2 unopened shoots in the crown

Dense root zone- damaged due to Ploughing in Basin area

Feeder roots placed shallow

Inter-cropping

Proper spacing left between the rows of intercrop and Palm

With Maize

With Banana

With Cotton

With Vegetables

With Cocoa With Sweet potato

With Ground nut

With Black-pepper

Cover crop

Along with Floriculture

Tube-rose as Intercrop

Cocoa as Intercrop

deficiencies
Copper deficiency- twisted fronds

Boron nutrient deficiency

Magnesium deficiency in the mature stage on Palm leaves/ fronds

Iron deficiency

Before root feeding

After root feeding

Disease- Spear rot

Pest attack

Rhinoceros beetle attack and control measures

Palm tree- damage due to Rhinoceros beetle

Damage due to rhinoceros beetle

Sex Pheromone trap with rhinoceros beetles

Beneficial Fungus- Metarrhizium

Catching a Rhinoceros beetle with a Hook

Rat menace

Bagworm attack- leaf shot holes

Extension Activities
Carried out by concerned Company

TV shows

Agricultural Exhibitions/ Melava Boards at selected ideal plots

Farmer tours and meetings

Demonstrations

Field Day

Thank You!

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