Oil Palm Crop Calendar - Practices To Be Adopted
+ January
Initial planting with aasured irrigation
Provide irrigation @160 liters per palm per day in adult plantations.
Apply weedicide in the palm basin with Glyphosate/Paraquaqt @ 2.5 ml/liter of water.
Fertigation with 5kg Urea , 3kg DAP and 5 kg MOP per acre for adult plantation.
Practice ablation with ablation tool in juvenile plantations up to 3 years.
Mulch with dried leaves, male inflorescence and empty fruit bunches in the palm basin.
Harvest with sickle attached with aluminium pole in aged plantations
+ February
Initial planting with aasured irrigation
Provide irrigation @200 liters per palm per day in adult plantations.
Fertigation with 5kg Urea , 3kg DAP and 5 kg MOP per acre for adult plantation.
Apply micronutrients Magnesium sulphate @250g/palm and Borax @ 50g/palm.
Practice ablation with ablation tool in juvenile plantations up to 3 years.
Mulch with dried leaves, male inflorescence and empty fruit bunches in the palm basin.
Monitor bag worm/leaf web/slug caterpillar, if observed apply lamda cyhalothrin @ 1ml/lit of water
Harvest with sickle attached with aluminium pole in aged plantations
+ March
Initial planting with aasured irrigation
Provide irrigation @250 liters per palm per day in adult plantations. Fertigation with 5kg Urea , 3kg DAP and 5 kg MOP per acre for adult plantation.
Practice ablation with ablation tool in juvenile plantations up to 3 years.
Mulch with dried leaves, male inflorescence and empty fruit bunches in the palm basin.
Harvest with sickle attached with aluminium pole in aged plantations
+ April
Sow sunhemp as a green manure crop in the palm basin during juvenile period
Provide irrigation @265 liters per palm per day in adult plantations.
Apply weedicide in the palm basin with Glyphosate/Paraquaqt @ 2.5 ml/liter of water.
Fertigation with 5kg Urea , 3kg DAP and 5 kg MOP per acre for adult plantation.
Practice ablation with ablation tool in juvenile plantations up to 3 years.
Mulch with dried leaves, male inflorescence and empty fruit bunches in the palm basin.
Collect soil & leaf sample and send for analysis.
Harvest with sickle attached with aluminium pole in aged plantations
+ May
Sow green manure crop-Sunhemp with in the basin in juvenile plantation
Provide irrigation @265 liters per palm per day in adult plantations, under sever summer situation provide 350 liters per palm per day.
Fertigation with 5kg Urea , 3kg DAP and 5 kg MOP per acre for adult plantation.
Practice ablation with ablation tool in juvenile plantations up to 3 years.
Mulch with dried leaves, male inflorescence and empty fruit bunches in the palm basin.
Need based leaf pruning and retain minimum of 35 leaves per palm.
Collect soil & leaf sample and send for analysis, if not collected in April
Harvest with sickle attached with aluminium pole in aged plantations
+ June
Initial planting with assured irrigation.
Provide irrigation @220 liters per palm per day in adult plantations [or] as per requirement based on rainfall/available moisture.
Three meter radius basin may be made, if basin method of irrigation is adopted
Fertigation with 5kg Urea , 3kg DAP and 5 kg MOP per acre for adult plantation.
Practice ablation with ablation tool in juvenile plantations up to 3 years.
Apply carbendazim @1g/lit of water [100-250ml of solution in the crown region] to manage bud rot.
Keep 20 grams of phorate inperforated sachets in the crown to manage Rhinoceros beetle.
Harvest with sickle attached with aluminium pole in aged plantations
+ July
Taking up of new plantation.
Provide irrigation @120 liters per palm per day in adult plantations [or] as per requirement based on rainfall/available moisture.
Fertigation with 5kg Urea , 3kg DAP and 5 kg MOP per acre for adult plantation.
Practice ablation with ablation tool in juvenile plantations up to 3 years.
Apply carbendazim @1g/lit of water [100-250ml of solution in the crown region] to manage bud rot.
Keep 20 grams of phorate inperforated sachets in the crown to manage Rhinoceros beetle.
Harvest with sickle attached with aluminium pole in aged plantations
+ August
Taking up of new plantation.
Provide irrigation @120 liters per palm per day in adult plantations [or] as per requirement based on rainfall/available moisture.
Fertigation with 5kg Urea , 3kg DAP and 5 kg MOP per acre for adult plantation.
Apply micronutrients Magnesium sulphate @250g/palm and Borax @ 50g/palm.
Practice ablation with ablation tool in juvenile plantations up to 3 years.
Mulch with dried leaves, male inflorescence and empty fruit bunches in the palm basin.
Harvest with sickle attached with aluminium pole in aged plantations
+ September
Taking up of new plantation.
Provide irrigation @145 liters per palm per day in adult plantations [or] as per requirement based on rainfall/available moisture.
Fertigation with 5kg Urea , 3kg DAP and 5 kg MOP per acre for adult plantation.
Apply micronutrients Magnesium sulphate @250g/palm and Borax @ 50g/palm.
Practice ablation with ablation tool in juvenile plantations up to 3 years.
Mulch with dried leaves, male inflorescence and empty fruit bunches in the palm basin.
Harvest with sickle attached with aluminium pole in aged plantations
+ October
Taking up of new plantation.
Monitor bag worm/leaf web/slug caterpillar, if observed apply lamda cyhalothrin @ 1ml/lit of water
Intercrop in juvenile plantations,
Don't plough in the palm basin, don't cut the leaves don't tie the leaves and don't plant intercrops in the palm basin.
Provide irrigation @140 liters per palm per day in adult plantations [or] as per requirement based on rainfall/available moisture.
Fertigation with 5kg Urea , 3kg DAP and 5 kg MOP per acre for adult plantation.
Practice ablation with ablation tool in juvenile plantations up to 3 years.
Harvest with sickle attached with aluminium pole in aged plantations
+ November
Taking up of new plantation.
Apply carbendazim @1g/lit of water [100-250ml of solution in the crown region] to manage bud rot.
Keep 20 grams of phorate inperforated sachets in the crown to manage Rhinoceros beetle.
Collect soil & leaf sample and send for analysis, if not collected in April
Provide irrigation @170 liters per palm per day in adult plantations [or] as per requirement based on rainfall/available moisture.
Fertigation with 5kg Urea , 3kg DAP and 5 kg MOP per acre for adult plantation.
Practice ablation with ablation tool in juvenile plantations up to 3 years.
Mulch with dried leaves, male inflorescence and empty fruit bunches in the palm basin.
Harvest with sickle attached with aluminium pole in aged plantations
+ December
Taking up of new plantation.
Apply carbendazim @1g/lit of water [100-250ml of solution in the crown region] to manage bud rot.
Provide irrigation @160 liters per palm per day in adult plantations [or] as per requirement based on rainfall/available moisture.
Fertigation with 5kg Urea , 3kg DAP and 5 kg MOP per acre for adult plantation.
Practice ablation with ablation tool in juvenile plantations up to 3 years.
Mulch with dried leaves, male inflorescence and empty fruit bunches in the palm basin.
Harvest with sickle attached with aluminium pole in aged plantations
