July 2010
Barn owl is reared as a biological control to reduce population of rats in an oil palm field.

June 2010
As oil palm is perennial, quality control at the early stage of planting is crucial. This is to ensure that only high quality oil palm trees are grown.

May 2010
Empty fruit bunches and palm fruit shells can be used as fuel to generate heat and electricity in a palm oil mill. In certain parts of Malaysia, excess electricity generated by palm oil mills is supplied into the national gridlines.

April 2010
Lumber from oil palm can be processed to produce furniture as value-added product. This enables the palm’s carbon to be permanently stored in the furniture, thus help mitigate climate change effect.

March 2010
A common sight at an oil palm mill. A tractor is seen pushing FFBs at the background.

February 2010
An efficient transport system is critical to transfer harvested FFBs immediately to a mill.

January 2010
Mechanization is a way forward to increase productivity while reducing operational costs in oil palm plantation.

December 2009
A trained worker knows the right time to harvest FFBs. This ensures the quality of palm oil is not affected.

November 2009
Extensive R&D has resulted in a creation of a ‘dwarf’ oil palm. This clone gives the same level of productivity, if not higher, and makes harvesting of FFBs much easier.

October 2009
The flowering plants planted along an oil palm row is a common feature in a plantation. These plants help reduce use of pesticides by providing home to predatory insects, which prey on oil palm’s pests.