Harvesting[edit | edit source]
FILL IN THE MISSING WORDS:
- The female flowers, after they are fertilized, turn into a
- Inside the pulp of the oil palm fruit there is a
- Before planting oil palms in a plantation, they are grown for about a year in a
- The best density is oil palms per hectare
- When the oil palm is young, it needs , especially in fertilizers
ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
- Describe the fruit of an oil palm.
- What varieties of oil palm are there?
- What tools are used to harvest the fruit clusters?
- What cover crops have you sown in your oil palm plantation?
- What insects attack the oil palm?
In what regions can oil palms be cultivated? - Why must fertilizers be applied to an oil palm plantation?
- Why must the fruit clusters be harvested at the right moment?
