New webinar on intercropping: “Cereal intercropping in oil palm fields: experiences from SouthKalimantan”. Speaker: Dr. Joko Purnomo, Lambung Mangkurat University. Date: 20 June. Time: 09.00Am CEST | 14 PM WIB. Language: Bahasa Indonesia. Register via this linkhttps://forms.gle/SCuQoHg54JfFMkUR7
Palm oil production generates a significant amount of palm oil trunks (OPTs) as a by-product.These trunks are often discarded or burned, contributing to environmental concerns. This projectaims to explore the potential of utilizing OPTs as a sustainable and innovative material for furnitureproduction. WP2 is organizing a student challenge to make products from oil palm trunks….
RSPO released an article on its view of the circular economy: “A circular economy is a possible avenue to address the waste problem with its circular nature. The focus is now to be more optimistic and move towards producing higher-value biobased products from oil palm biomass waste. RSPO encourages its members to leverage this opportunity…
IPB and WFBR developed a research and investment proposal for a call by The Palm Oil Plantation Fund Management Agency (BPDPKS). The proposal aims to establish a pilot scale Integrated POME and EFB Processing and Recycling system to Produce Biogas and Fertilizer as an attachment to the IPB oil palm training mill in Jongol, Java….
WFBR colleagues Ben van den Broek and Julien Voogt have travelled (16-19 April 2024) to Malaysia to work with our partner Profina in Johor to extract starch from old oil palm trunks to test different starch applications for in the PalmStarch project (https://www.wur.nl/nl/onderzoek-resultaten/kennisonline-onderzoeksprojecten-lnv/soorten-onderzoek/kennisonline/palmstarch.htm https://edepot.wur.nl/640436). After travel to Medan (April 21 – 26) to work with IPB…
Maja Slingerland presented a poster on the opportunity of using weeds in oil palm plantations to feed cattle through rotational grazing. She presented collaborative work from the SustainPalm project, including Shekhar Chhetri, Aart van der Linden, Muhammad Fahmi Sidiq, Wahyu Darsono, and Ika Sumantri. See poster here.
From 26 Feb – 6 Mar 2024, Maja and Rosa paid a visit to the intercropping project by PT Acronesia (https://arconesia.com/ in Bengkulu, Sumatra, and the oil palm cattle integration project in Tanah Bumbu, South Kalimantan. In Bengkulu, we went with PT Arconesia’s founder Yanda to visit a project wherein oil palm farmers collaborated with watermelon…
To establish a community of practice around oil palm intercropping, SustainPalm will host a two-monthly international webinar to share ideas and knowledge and engage in discussion on the opportunities and challenges of intercropping in oil palm fields. The first webinar was held on 25 April 2024, attended by nearly 200 participants. Maja Slingerland introduced the…