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The Oil Palm

Better Farming Series 24

• Modern oil palm cultivation
• The oil palm nursery
• The plantation
• Looking after the plantation
• Harvesting
• Suggested question paper

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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?