How fruits at the palm plantation are harvested?

During that time the grower must spend money and work hard, without harvesting any fruit or earning any money. To make a modern oil palm plantation takes money. Most often you will have to pay workmen for clearing the site of the plantation and removing tree stumps. Then you must buy seedlings and fertilizers. read more

Fully mature oil palms produce 18 to 30 metric tonnes of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) per hectare. The yield depends on a variety of factors, including age, seed quality, soil and climatic conditions, quality of plantation management and the timely harvesting and processing of FFB. read more

Each fruit can contain up to 25-30% of oil – one reason why oil palm is the most efficient oilseed crop in the world. The fruit is harvested using a long sickle. After harvesting, the FFBs are collected and loaded onto a truck to be transported to one of GAR’s palm oil mills. read more