Agriculture Research and Advisory (ARAB) offers the following whitepapers for your review and consideration. We are continuing to develope new whitepapers that explore the many developments that would improve the Oil Palm production process. We are dedicated in solving the challenges being faced by the oil palm agribusiness and plantations today, while providing a cost effictive solution.

This paper discusses the critical role that technical management plays in the Oil Palm production process, the Key Gaps and shortcomings in the management and technical practices that exist today, the impact of these gaps and its relation to the key challenges that continue to plague producers, the challenges of overcoming these gaps, requirements of an ideal technical management approach, and typical end-results of a solution which answers these gaps and challenges.

Describing an alternate and economic/environmentally friendly method for converting mill wastes into compost.

Acacia mangium plants were grown in a pot culture medium of fine sand supplied with Complete and Minus Nutrient Solutions to study the nutrient status of the plants and their effect on growth under different nutrient treatments.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Centre of Agricultural Policy Studies at Massey University (New Zealand) is currently undertaking a study on environmental constraints posed to agricultural production in the Pacific Rim countries. This country report thus presents the findings of a desktop survey of the agro-environment situation in Malaysia and reports on the various environmental constraints posed to agriculture by the agricultural and non-agricultural sectors in the country.