Many tropical forests are dominated by edge habitat, with consequences for forest structure, carbon stocks, and biodiversity. However, effects highly variable context-dependent, poorly quantified in oil palm landscapes. We studied 10 lowland rainforest remnants bordering mature plantations on Borneo, surveying 0.2 ha plots along transects running perpendicular to the (ten 1.6 km transects, 5-6 ...

This study aims to implement practical management accounting on nipah water by looking for inputs and outputs other commodities. The main problem in this is how can raise environmental problems the form of green practices. review seen from determine cross production between as capital input Environmental practices dealing with pricing agricultural products become increasingly complex locations....

Oil palm is Indonesia's mainstay plantation commodity as a source of income for farmers and companies foreign exchange. plant with the highest productivity vegetable oil production age beyond 30 years. To evaluate old plants palm, comparative study was carried out based on number different populations per unit area ​​land. The calculation in form fresh fruit bunches (FFB) population areas numbe...

Dubai has imported elegant plants and trees to maintain a green attractive outdoor atmosphere. However, substantial proportion of the are not suitable for arid climate United Arab Emirates (UAE) require intensive irrigation. This poses potential replacing all greenery with date palm that compatible region’s more moderate The availability value reclaimed irrigation water, local soil qu...

Rhynchophorus spp. weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) are destructive palm pests in their native and introduced ranges (Giblin-Davis et al., 2013). The palm weevil, R. vulneratus (Panzer), is native to southern Thailand-northern Malaysia on the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Singapore, and Indonesia (Wattanapongsiri 1966, Rugman-Jones et al., 2013). In Aug. and Sep. 2010, larval and adult R. vulneratus...

Goal To investigate the effect of land-use change on Chagas-disease infection risk in Colombia, considering the expanding economy of oil-palm plantations. In 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) defined the 2020 goals program for controlling the burden of morbidity of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs). Chagas disease is a NTD in Latin America, with a burden of 10.000 deaths per year (Rass...

Basal Stem Rot (BSR) is the most destructive disease instigated by a white wood rotting fungus called Ganoderma boninense, which cause great economic setback in oil palm productivity. It attacks basal stem of trees, causing them to slowly rot. also affects xylem tissues that eventually interrupt water transportation upper part palm, turning leaves at frond become yellow. This problem should be ...

the rapid expansion in world production of palm oil over the last three decades has attracted the attention of the oils and fats industry. oil palm gives the highest yield of oil per unit of any crop. palm oil is the major oil produced, with annual world production in excess of 50 million tonnes. throughout the world, 90% of palm oil is used for edible purposes (e.g., margarine, deep fat frying...