Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Oil Palm Volume 1: Introduction, Breeding and Cultivation Techniques

by Rajinder Singh

Oil palm is widely cultivated in tropical countries for use in food processing, personal care products and other applications such as biodiesel. Cultivation faces a range of challenges such as its environmental impact (e.g. in deforestation and biodiversity loss) as well threats from pests and diseases. There is an urgent need to make oil palm cultivation more efficient and environmentally sustainable. This collection reviews the key research addressing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786761041
• ISBN13: 9781786761040
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Ltd
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"