IPNI Southeast Asia's International Publication Partnership on Oil Palm Nutrition

Our understanding of the importance of nutrients for sustainable oil palm production is incomplete. Extensive experimental work has been dedicated to understand yield response of oil palm to nutrients applied. Results of such empirical studies have been used to develop models for fertilizer recommendations, and to estimate yields with and without nutrient inputs. Only few of these studies report on nutrient uptake and efficiency. Specific research on nutrient uptake and nutrient use efficiency has been limited to a few studies in the 1960s in Nigeria and Malaysia, and more recently in the 2000s in Malaysia and Indonesia. Acknowledging this issue, IPNI Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) implemented during 2006 and 2016 various large research projects on 4R Nutrient Stewardship in commercial oil palm plantation systems. These projects generated a significant amount of valuable information for improved nutrient management. IPNI and K+S Kali GmbH, an IPNI member company, pooled resources and now partner with the Institute of Applied Plant Nutrition and the Insitute for Crop Production Systems in the Tropics, both of Göttingen’s Georg August University in Germany, to analyze, publish and widely disseminate the data accumulated in these projects.

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