Transferring Oil Palm Plantation Best Management Practices (BMP) from Southeast Asia to West Africa
IPNI-2010-GBL-53
IPNI Southeast Asia demonstrated large success of BMP in oil palm growing environments in Southeast Asia. Today, oil palm growers invest in existing plantations elsewhere in the world, including in West Africa. Can BMP, developed in Southeast Asia, be deployed to intensify oil palm plantations in these regions? In environmental analyses IPNI demonstrated similarity of poorer oil palm environments in Kalimantan with other regions in Southeast Asia, in Latin America and also in West Africa. Read more
Interpretive Summary
Best Management Practices (BMP) in oil palm plantations were introduced in Ghana, West Africa in 2013. The study aimed at identifying and implementing improved agronomic management practices that meet site-specific needs and opportunities for enhanced productivity, profitability, and environmental sustainability of oil palm production by providing assistance in training, agronomic and economic data analysis, and planning for wide-scale implementation of BMPs at a commercial scale.
The oil palm sector in West Africa is rapidly developing, yet its plantations are under-performing with yields as low as one-third of the optimum. In 2013, Best Management Practices (BMP) were implemented in oil palm plantations in Ghana, West Africa with the aim of identifying and implementing improved agronomic management practices. These practices meet site-specific needs, and increase opportunities for enhanced productivity, profitability, and environmental sustainability.
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2013 | Project Description |
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Project Leader
Shamie Zingore, International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI)
Project Cooperators
Thomas Oberthur
IPNI Staff
Location
Asia \ South-Eastern Asia
Africa \ Western Africa