PATTERN OF FRESH FRUIT BUNCH (FFB) PRODUCTION AND YIELD DISTRIBUTION OF OIL PALM IN ANDHRA PRADESH
Authors
-
P. MADHAVI LATHA *, M. TIRUPATI REDDY, B. PRATAP and H.P. MAHESWARAPPA
Horticultural Research Station, Dr. Y.S.R. Horticultural University, Vijayarai-534 475
Abstract
The field study was conducted to evaluate new tenera hybrids at Horticultural Research Station,
Vijayarai. As oil palm is a continuous fruit yielding crop in a harvest year, variations in month wise FFB
production was studied in tenera hybrid crosses. The performance of hybrids under irrigated conditions
planted during 2007 was studied for four years (9 to 12 years after planting) for bunch number,
bunch weight and FFB production per ha at monthly intervals. During the four years of study, palms
showed significant differences in bunch number, average bunch weight and FFB production in different
months of a harvest year. Average bunch weight increased with increase in age of the palms during
the study period from 6th to 9th harvest years (11.54 to 14.98 kg) with inverse relation between number
of bunches produced per palm and average bunch weight. May, August and September were the
months which recorded 40-45 % of total yield of a harvest year while November, December, January
and February were the lean production months which recorded lower number of bunches palm-1
month-1(0.5) and lower bunch weights month-1 (4 to 5 kg) contributing to 10 % annual yield. Cumulative
yield of 4 years data shows that there was 18 % and 15% FFB production recorded in May and
August months, respectively. Four years mean FFB production was 3.5 t ha-1 in August followed by 3
t ha-1 in May month. In lean production months (November, December, January and February) per
month FFB production was only 0.5 t ha-1. In Andhra Pradesh, peak oil palm FFB production season
is 6 months (April to September) and the remaining 6 months (October to March) is lean period.
References
Broekmans, A.F.M.1957. Growth, flowering and
yield of the oil palm in Nigeria. Journal of
West Africa. Inst. oil palm Research. 2:187-
Corley, R H V.1976. Infloresence abortion and
sex differentiation. In: Oil palm Research.
Elsevier Scientific Publishing Company,
Amsterdam.
Corley, R.H.V and Tinker, P.B.2003.The Oil Palm.
Blackwell Science. Oxford, United
Kingdom.pp.64–65.
Henson, I.E. 2005. Modeling seasonal variations
in oil palm bunch production using
spreadsheet programme. Journal of Oil
Palm Research.17(1):27–40.
Henson, I.E.2006. Modeling the impact of climate
and climate regulated factors on oil palm
growth and productivity. MPOB Technology
:1–43.
ICAR-IIOPR.2019. Annual Report (2018-19).
Indian Institute of Oil Palm Research
(IIOPR). pp.4-5.
Lotte S. Woittiez., Mark T. Van Wijk., Maja
Slingerland., Meine Van Noordwijk and Ken,
E Giller 2017. Yield gaps in oil palm: A
quantitative review of contributing factors.
European Journal of Agronomy. 83:57-77.
Madhavi Latha, P., Kalpana, M and Manorama,
P. 2016. Influence of plantation age on
production performance of oil palm in
Andhra Pradesh. The Journal of Research
ANGRAU. 44 (3 & 4):98-103.
Naveen Kumar P.,Ravi Kumar Mathur, Pitchai
Murugesan,Gopal Krishna Reddy, Sunil
Kumar, K.,Ramajayam, D and Ravi
Chandran, G. 2017.Seasonal variations in
fresh fruit bunch production in Dura oil palm.
Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences. 87
(9): 1184-1189.
Rethinam, P.1998.Recent advances in oil palm
cultivation in India. Country Paper presented
at the International Oil palm Conference
held at Bali, Indonesia. pp.7-10.
Rethinam, P and Murugesan 2018. Global
perspective of germplasam and breeding for
seed production in oil palm. International
Journal of Oil palm. Vol (10) 1 & 2, 2018.
Downloads
Submitted
Published
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
The author owns the article's copyright until the article is accepted for publication. After acceptance, the author(s) assigns the article's copyright jointly to both the authors and the Publishers of the Journal of Research ANGRAU (ANGRAU) and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
