No tech solution will solve oil palm’s labour crunch until harvesting is fully mechanised – from cutting bunches to pruning, stacking and collecting loose fruit. Harvesting technologies ...

Pruning palm trees is quite simple ... They are also woven into floor mats, wall hangings, and baskets. Palm oil is used in everything from soap to cooking. Palm wax is used to make candles.

Before planting clear the area of all grass and weeds. Add 4 to 5 shovelfuls of organic matter like peat moss or manure to amend sandy soils. Citrus trees will not tolerate sitting in wet soil so ...

The loud whirr of a chainsaw sounds through the forest as a small group of farmers gathers around a tree filled with red seed ...

So I bought a few dependable evergreens – a large Fatsia japonica (false castor oil plant), a flamboyant Cordyline australis (cabbage palm), a smaller ... cutting back and pruning, give these ...

If you’ve been busy cutting back and pruning, give these shrubs ... Fatsia japonica (false castor oil plant), a flamboyant Cordyline australis (cabbage palm), a smaller Grevillea, some ferns ...

After he began working with the company in 2016, Santoso starting using practices that helped his cocoa trees flourish, regularly pruning and ... other crops such as palm oil.

After he began working with the company in 2016, Santoso starting using practices that helped his cocoa trees flourish, regularly pruning and ... other crops such as palm oil.

Mind you, we are not going to take anything from them but some of these plantations need maintenance, proper pruning of the trees to create a ... Their dollar earnings from cocoa almost match our ...