Learning from commercial crop performance: Oil palm yield response to management under well-defined growing conditions

J. Cock, S.P. Kam, S. Cook, C. Donough, Y.L. Lim, A. Jines-Leon, C.H. Lim, S. Primananda, B.T. Yen, S.N. Mohanaraj, Y.M.S. Samosir and T. Oberthür

Agricultural Systems, 2016, vol. 149, issue C, 99-111

Abstract: Farmers learn from their own experiences. However, they are rarely sure if an exceptionally good or bad outcome is due to chance effects or whether it is due to a given combination of management practices and environmental conditions. We surmised that, if each harvest event is adequately characterized and a large number of these events are analyzed together, it should be possible to associate crop response to management within a particular set of growth conditions. We tested this hypothesis using the perennial crop, oil palm.

Keywords: Oil palm; Weather; Yield; Commercial data; Water deficit; Excess water (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2016.09.002

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