Nutrient status of frond heaps and the underlying soils at an 18-year-old oil palm field in Central Pahang, Malaysia

• Main Authors: Yusuyin, Yusufujiang, Tan, Ngai Paing, Wong, Mum Keng, Abdu, Arifin, Iwasaki, Kozo, Tanaka, Sota
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Japanese Society for Tropical Agriculture 2015
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48666/1/Nutrient%20status%20of%20frond%20heaps%20and%20the%20underlying%20soils%20at%20an%2018-year-old%20oil%20palm%20field%20in%20Central%20Pahang%2C%20Malaysia.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48666/; https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jsta/59/4/59_212/_article

In oil palm plantation, palm fronds are pruned off upon fruit bunch harvest and heaped up in-between palm trees, which is called as a frond heap. This study examined the amounts of nutrients contained in frond heaps and their influence on the underlying soil fertility at an 18-year-old oil palm fiel...