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.

September 2009
Oil palm estate provides not only employment but also proper housing facility to its workers. This is one example of many corporate social responsibilities the Malaysian palm oil industry is offering to its employees.

August 2009
Oil palm is a monoecious crop, meaning that it bears both male and female flowers on the same tree. This picture shows a healthy male flower of oil palm.

July 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.

June 2009
Oil palm’s fresh fruit bunches (FFBs) have a high content of oil. It is thus necessary to process FFBs immediately after harvesting to reduce build-up of free fatty acids, which affect the quality of its oil. A tractor is seen here to transport FFBs to an oil palm mill.

May 2009
Basal Stem Rot (BSR) disease caused by Ganoderma boninense is the most destructive disease in oil palm. If left unchecked, it can destroy thousands of oil palm stands in a very short period of time. A worker is seen here injecting a biofungicide to heal a BSR-affected oil palm tree

April 2009
Cost-effective measures are common in an oil palm field. Whenever possible, use of fossil fuels is minimized. A happy-looking worker is seen here guiding his buffalo to deliver FFBs to a pick-up point

March 2009
One would think that pruned fronds are useless but not so in an oil palm field. Here, pruned fronds are recycled in-situ to return nutrients and biomass to the soil thus help reduce use of chemical fertilizers

February 2009
Returns of investment in good plantation practices (GAPs) can be in a form of higher tonnage of high-quality FFBs. These harvested high-quality FFBs are gathered at a pick-up point before being transported to a nearby mill

January 2009
Oil palm seedlings are consistently nurtured to ensure their health and quality. This is a crucial step to ensure a high productivity of the trees when harvesting