Browsing articles in "Research & Development"

Research and Development Projects: Biotechnology – BTL/DB01-06

Code :
BTL/DB01-06
Title :
Leaf sample banking
Objectives :
Long-term storage of leaf tissues for DNA isolation and fingerprinting in the future, even when the palms no longer exist in the field

Research and Development Projects: Information Management

Decision making in a plant breeding programme
Development of an oil palm system model
Spatial modeling of oil palm growth and yield performances and applications of remote sensing, GIS and GPS technology in plantation management.
Intranet and multimedia system for plantation(office) management
Dynamic and optimised economic model of oil palm plantation

Research and Development Projects: Information Management – OPEM2/94

Code :
OPEM2/94
Title :
Dynamic and optimised economic model of oil palm plantation
Objectives :
To develop a dynamic and optimised economic model of oil palm which is capable of allocating the resources for sustainability of estates.

Research and Development Projects: Information Management – CM8/97

Code :
CM8/97
Title :
Intranet and multimedia system for plantation(office) management
Objectives :
1) To develop a comprehensive intranet/internet webpages with multimedia facilities.
2) To ensure the direct communication between the users and the server, ie data can be posted and users can query the database on real time basic.
3) To develop a firewall.

Research and Development Projects: Information Management – CM3&6/97

Code :
CM3&6/97
Title :
Spatial modeling of oil palm growth and yield performances and applications of remote sensing, GIS and GPS technology in plantation management.
Objectives :
1) To investigate the spatial variation of oil palm growth and yield using geostatistical method.
2) To produce yield and growth maps of oil palm for precision agriculture.
3) To develop methods to analyse and interpret remote sensing images for plantation management. 4) To explore the use of neural network for pattern recognition in remote sensing images.

Research and Development Projects: Information Management – CM1-2/93

Code :
CM1-2/93
Title :
Development of an oil palm system model
Objectives :
1) To develop 3-D light model of oil palm.
2) To incorporate water and nutrient models into the light model of oil palm.
3) To visualize the growth and production of oil palm in 3-D.
4) To verify and validate the oil palm fertiliser recommendation(INFERS) model and site yield potential(SYP) model.

Research and Development Projects: Information Management – CM11/01

Code :
CM11/01
Title :
Decision making in a plant breeding programme
Objectives :
1) To develop a new algorithm or methodology to optimise the selection of superior oil palm planting materials.
2) To develop a procedure to determine the stability of the genotypes for subsequent selection.
3) To compare and determine the best technique or a combination of techniques to handle large, messy dataset and improve decision making in plant breeding.

Research and Development Projects: Techno-Economic Management

Utilisation of palm wastes and by-products-To develop a system to utilize EFB more efficiently in the estate
Precision agriculture-To develop a method to produce as appiled map(fertilizer)
Oil palm yield forecasting
Oil palm replanting- To evaluate a new method of clearing old oil palm for replanting using a machine called the EnviroMulcherTM on the early growth of the replanted palms mulched with the pulverised palm trunk chip
Size of polybag-To evaluate the suitability of using smaller polybags in the nursery and subsequent assessment of growth and yield of oil palms in the field(New Pogoh estate)
Size of polybag-To evaluate the suitability of using smaller polybags in the nursery and subsequent assessment of growth and yield of oil palms in the field(Batang Jelai Estate)
Size of polybag-To evaluate the suitability of using smaller polybags in the nursery and subsequent assessment of growth and yield of oil palms in the field(Tuan Mee Estate)
To investigate the effectiveness of AA+Mulch on year 1 oil palm (10ha-Ladang Bekoh)
Labour saving technique in nursery- To evaluate the effects of different types of mulching on the growth of immature oil palms in low rainfall regions(Voules Estate)
To investigate the use of AA+Mulch to reduce the frequency of fertilizer application in year2 and year3 of oil palm plantings(10ha-Ladang Landak)
Applications of personal digital assistant(PDA)-To evaluate the feasibility of using PalmPilot ( a PDA) for ffb recording in the field
Precision agriculture-To weigh ffb in the field to generate yield map on per harvesting task basis for precision agriculture

Research and Development Projects: Techno-Economic Management – TEM/YM99-3

Code :
TEM/YM99-3
Title :
Precision agriculture-To weigh ffb in the field to generate yield map on per harvesting task basis for precision agriculture
Objectives :
1) To generate yield map for precision agriculture.
2) To replace the bunch count method of payment to the harvesters.
3) As a security check against theft of ffb in transit.

Research and Development Projects: Techno-Economic Management – TEM/YM99-1A

Code :
TEM/YM99-1A
Title :
Applications of personal digital assistant(PDA)-To evaluate the feasibility of using PalmPilot ( a PDA) for ffb recording in the field
Objectives :
1) To use the Palm Pilot(a PDA) for recording and grading ffb at each platform.
2) To generate harvesting and fruit quality reports from the data collected by the PalmPilot with a desktop computer.
3) To generate yield map for precision agriculture.