On 9 to 12 February, Prof Agung Nugroho of ULM and Wolter Elbersen and Maarten Kootstra of Wageningen UR visited oil palm mills in South Kalimantan to better understand how circular use of palm oil mill residues and methane capture can be mainstreamed in Indonesia. At the PT CPKA mill, biogas is generated from POME…
SMARTRI, IPB and WUR collaborate to demonstrate that digested empty fruit bunches can be used as a fertilizer. The parties met on July 8 in Libo (Sumatra). Background The SustainPalm programme is being executed to implement practices that increase sustainability of oil palm in Indonesia. One of the focus areas is the use of residues…
On 26 December, representatives of the Ministry of Agriculture participated in a festive event to plant padi gogo (upland rice) as intercrop in a young oil palm field. The event took place in the South Kalimantan living lab of the SustainPalm program. By planting rice in oil palm fields the Ministry aims to contribute to achieving *national…
October 15 2024 Nahrowi and Sudrajat, with the sheep manager and the mill manager, showed the IPB Jonggol research site on Java island to Pak Wahyu from South Kalimantan and Aart vd Linden from Animal Sciences Wageningen University. In Jonggol there is an oil palm mill which may be transformed to a test mill when…
On October 7th 2024 staff and students from the Vocational High School for Agriculture, SMKN 3 Pertanian, Bengkulu Tengah visited the SUSTAINPALM supported intercropped oil palm fields in Bengkulu. One picture shows students next to oil palm watermelon combination. A second picture shows two students, a farmer who is a former graduate of the school,…
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…
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…