Thursday 15 November 2012

chapter 4


Life cycle of oil palm

For what you know everything in nature will have a cycle so as well as for oil palm too. Normally you can see it in some nursery in Malaysia that is private or non-private, they will grow it from loose fruits and put it in black plastic and wait it grow and grow.. In my estate, we usually bought it from Risda that is near from us so it’s easily to get it without travel far far away, by the way we can save transport fees because we using our tractor to make it here..

 

Actually when you guys buy oil palm, you guys should find a trusted dealer to make sure that all your seedling is female and not male. Is it funny? Yea I think so because at first I also very shocked that oil palm trees also got sex and what I know is that the male oil palm will never bear fruit to you that mean you can’t have your FFB from your trees and you may facing problem when you get your oil palm seed is male so must be careful^^

 

 From seedling to mature oil palm is takes very long time, so the normally the estate holder will end their life at below 30 years. Because as you see, once the tree get older their height will increase and they will keep growing but our workers is very difficult to yield the FFB from high trees. Even human sight also got limitation and they may yield the unripe FFB and this kind of situation only will make decrease our income so in order to solve it we need to replant the trees as I mentioned it earlier.

 



   
 
 
                                                                                                           
 
 

                                                                               
 

 

 

 

 

 

Saturday 13 October 2012

chapter 3-Tools


Chapter 3-thing to be prepare during harvesting oil palm

Tools that going to use in oil palm estate are:-
T-lifter, J hook, sickle with long rod, chisel, wheelbarrow, basket, brush…
Vehicle:-
Tractor, backhole, 4wd vehicles…

Description:

T-lifter
Use to loading oil palm to the trailer of the tractor.
Lorry driver use it when unloading the FFB from ramp.




J hook
After planter harvest FFB, the partner or himself will collect the FFB together by using this tool.

Sickle with long rod (adjustable)
This kind of tool is used for harvest the taller oil palm trees, and the rod is joined to another rod so it can extend it or decrease it length.

 















Chisel
It used for the lower oil palm trees like 1 to 5 years trees.












Wheelbarrow
It is used for planters to collect FFB easily and stack it together so when people come to collect also will save a lot of time.






 
Basket & brush
During you harvest the FFB, I’m sure that the FFB will drop the loose fruits so these two kind of tool is used to collect loose fruits. It’s much easy to collect them compare to you collect the loose fruits one by one.









Friday 12 October 2012

environment of my house

 
             My House                               My uncle house (opposite of my house)

  
Office                                                                                         my cousin fishing (nearby my house)




Store (fertilizers)

ramp (collection of ffb)