The first edition of the IPNI pocket guide series on Nursery, Immature, and Mature published 10 years ago in English language quickly became popular among planters as a generic, high quality, and widely applicable reference to best management practices in oil palm. The guides have been high in demand ever since with more than 4,500 copies sold and distributed to date. It is much overdue that we offer the pocket guide series in Bahasa Indonesia to make this ‘ready reference’ more widely available to field personnel.
IPNI aims to strengthen its publication portfolio of handbooks and pocket guides in the coming years recognizing the importance of printed material in providing planters with practical information. At the same time, we make efforts to complement our publication portfolio by offering information online. Work is underway to develop IPNI’s new Oil Palm Portal (>http://oilpalm.ipni.net<) into a one-stop-shop for the latest information on Oil Palm Agronomy and we have just launched an oil palm discussion forum (>http://forum.ipni.net/oilpalm<) providing planters with a market place to exchange ideas and experiences.
We hope that the pocket guides and other IPNI information, training, and software aides will continue to benefit planters in their efforts to improve yield through best management practices.
