Oil Palm Companies to Provide Seeds for Replanting

Asian Agri, one of Indonesia’s largest palm oil producers, has affirmed their commitment to provide high quality seeds in order to support government’s oil palm replanting program. The Government is targeting to replant 185 thousand hectares oil palm plantations this year. On its press release,  (17/7/2018), Asian Agri stated that its Topaz R&D Oil Palm Research Station (OPRS) has delivered more than 4 million oil palm seeds by June 2018 to farmers and companies. The current seeds are from the Topaz 3-Series, a kind of hybrid obtained from selected Dura Deli parent and Pisifera from Africa which produces high quality seeds with a higher quantity of production. Ang Boon Beng, Topaz Seed Senior Breeder, said that seed selection is the key to obtain optimal production from oil palm plantations, as well to support sustainable management practices. “The replanting program that is currently intensively conducted in various regions in Indonesia provides the right opportunity for farmers and other palm oil industry players to choose high quality seeds, since currently we have seen so many fake palm seeds being sold online,” Ang said. ***