Adopt Best Agro-Management Practices and Streamlining Operation

5. Delay activities report

Fresh fruit bunches (FFBs) harvested should be delivered immediately to the mills within 24 hours. Doing so results in a higher yield and quality of CPO production. The faster the fruit is crushed, the less FFA is formed, the better the yield and quality of CPO. FFA is detrimental to the yield and final quality of the CPO production.

6. Uncontrolled fruit sorting

Grading is an activity of fresh fruit bunches sorting as one of the production controls both in quantity and quality. Grading activities are carried out at the loading ramp station by sorting fresh fruit bunches in accordance with predetermined grading criteria and standards. As for the standard fruit grading carried out, among others: unripe fruit, ripe fruit, over ripe fruit, long stalk, abnormal fruit, and empty bunch.

Job assignment location error will impact on upkeep and job assignment progress reports. Companies need a geolocation mapping services to monitor infield activities and track mobile employees. The web service is intended for administrators, offering an up-to-date report of workers' locations and status updates, while the mobile application allows the employee in the field to accept new jobs and update their progress report.

Best management practices will streamline this complex process, which in turn, reducing the use of fertilizers, pest control management, fire detection, detection of unproductive plots, and increasing yield in every plot of palm oil plantation. As the consequences on the output side would be a more of FFB (fresh fruit bunches) yield with less yield risk. In the short run, this would result in a higher profit per hectare.

In conclusion, in a world of rapid and deep change, all of us must look at what we need to do to be sustainable and traceable. Palm oil companies need to look at how sustainable and traceable they are in terms of their own plantation operations. They cannot say, for example, that they want to preserve smallholder agriculture, conservation for wildlife, protects customary rights, implements of NDPE (No Deforestation, No Peat, No Exploitation) policies, etc., without providing traceability system to support it. Liberalized market forces will give exactly the opposite result.

As the final conclusions, palm oil company will only be sustainable if it is capable of renewing itself by traceability through data to the sources. This means palm oil company should adopts best management practices and streamlining its operation for sustain maximum profits in a vibrant global economy.