Rain Is Back

Syukur Alhamdulillah kehadhrat Illahi kerna telah menurunkan hujan sejak seminggu ni. Ini akan mengaktifkan semula proses fotosintesis dan respirasi. Tenaga akan kembali terhasil dan seterusnya menambah pengeluaran bunga. Namun begitu barang diingatkan bahawa hujan yang terlalu lebat boleh membantutkan proses pendebungaan kerana debunga boleh menjadi rosak sekiranya antesis berlaku sewaktu hujan.. Namun Allah Maha Adil dan Bijaksana.

Rain, Please Come.

Alhamdulillah thanks God, finally after a month of dry the rain came on Thursday, 12 feb. Eventhough it was only 2ml of rain, but at least it was water. But, if there's is more rain to come, we could expect a surge in FFB production, due to higher no of bunches with above 5 fruit detached. . Dry period, actually slowing the process of ripening oil palm bunches. But, once ripened, this bunches contain an optimum oil content , thus improved the Oil Extraction Rate (OER) at the mill. One could expect the OER should be around 21-22%, thus giving higher return of revenue from each tonne of Fresh Fruits Bunches.

Dry Weather

It was almost a month the estate didn't receive any rain. Actually it had an adverse effect on oil palm especially sex differentiation which determine the male and female flower, thus affect number of oil palm bunches to be produced. Others effect due to this adverse weather are:

• Slow new frond production that effect inflorescence emergence.
• Abortion of nearly formed bunches.
• Metabolite function.

All of the above might affect yield in next 20-24 months.