Palm Oil Engineering Bulletin No.100 (July - Sept 2011) p63-70
OER boosters
MENON, N. Ravi

This article lists 17 OER boosters namely, Poor quality crop – get the FFB quality right, Contamination – strict enforcement, revoke license if necessary, Excessive trash in FFB – do not accept trash with FFB, Unripe crop – Need Strict Enforcement, – Long stalk (stalk should be as short as possible)- if not, such bunches should be rejected, confiscated and processed by the mill under unaccounted crop, Over-ripe crop – do not wait for bunches to be overripe, Mixed crop – harvest when bunches are just ripe, Loose fruits not collected – collect all loose fruits irrespective of the cost, Wet bunches – strict monitoring and enforcement, Rat infestation – rat elimination using barn owl, and many more.



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