November 14, 2018. Penang, Malaysia – In the most recent issue of Better Crops, IPNI’s Southeast Asia Program published articles about two unique crops: Theobroma cacao, or food of the gods named by t ...
October 9, 2018. Penang, Malaysia – The International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) has published a paper, "Fertilizer management effects on oil palm yield and nutrient use efficiency on sandy soil ...
October 3, 2018. Penang, Malaysia – A comprehensive review on oil palm nutrition was undertaken by the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) for the journal Advances in Agronomy and is now av ...
June 14, 2018. Penang, Malaysia – The International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) has just published four new pocket guides to help farmers/plantation managers acquire essential knowledge for the i ...
The International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) invites eligible graduate students to apply for the 2018 IPNI Scholar Award. Individual prizes of USD 2,000 will be awarded directly to winners with ...
January 16, 2018. Penang, Malaysia – Fertilizer is a major expense to oil palm plantations; understanding its far-reaching benefits could revolutionize commercial operations. While it's generally acce ...
November 15, 2017. Penang, Malaysia – Plantations routinely record vast amounts of data for oil palm blocks throughout their lifecycle. Plantation Intelligence (PI) applies the concept of business int ...
Hayat Ullah named the Southeast Asian award recipient
October 10, 2017. Penang, Malaysia – The effects of a series of best management practices, including site-specific nutrient management, canopy management and harvesting, was observed in six sites in In ...
September 6, 2017. Penang, Malaysia – The International Plant Nutrition Institute is pleased to announce the release of a new version of Nutrient Expert® for Hybrid Maize in the Indonesian language (B ...
IPNI has been engaged with the oil palm industry since the 1970s, supporting knowledge- and capacity-building. IPNI SEAP strengthens this support now with training. In July 2017, for the 1st time, IPN ...
February 15, 2017. Penang, Malaysia – The International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) invites eligible graduate students to apply for the 2017 IPNI Scholar Award. Individual prizes of USD 2,000 wil ...
January 26, 2017. Penang, Malaysia – Assessing attainable yield of oil palm is the key for sustainable site-specific intensification of production. By calculating the difference between attainable yie ...
December 20, 2016. Penang, Malaysia – Nutrient Expert® (NE) for Maize was launched in November this year in the Philippines by the Department of Agriculture - Bureau of Agricultural Research (DA-BAR) ...
December 15, 2016. Penang, Malaysia – Like all farmers, oil palm planters learn from their own experiences. Yet, they are rarely sure if an exceptionally good or bad outcome is due to chance or a give ...
November 24, 2016. Penang, Malaysia – Our knowledge of the importance of nutrients for sustainable oil palm production is incomplete. Extensive experimental work has been dedicated to the understandin ...
November 7, 2016. Penang, Malaysia – There is a significant gap between actual yields achieved and the potentially attainable yield in most oil palm fields in Indonesia and Malaysia.
November 02, 2016. Penang, Malaysia – Rio Tinto Borates (RTB), one of the world’s largest producers of refined borates, has joined an ongoing partnership between the “Cocoa Care” program of PT Communi ...
October 11, 2016. Penang, Malaysia – Penang-based independent oil palm agronomist, Chiu Sheng Bin recently reviewed and brought to the attention of planters, the 138-page “4R PLANT NUTRITION: A Manual ...
September 22, 2016. Penang, Malaysia – Fresh fruit bunches (FFB) contain significant amounts of plant nutrients such as nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), sulfur (S), and magnesium (Mg). Whe ...
July 28, 2016. Penang, Malaysia – The International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI), a leader in global plant nutrition, is dedicated to responsible nutrient management, with initiatives addressing t ...
July 18, 2016. Penang, Malaysia – International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) is pleased to announce the release of android-based versions of Nutrient Expert® for crops and geographies, i. e. , mai ...
Jun 22, 2016. Penang, Malaysia – The International Plant Nutrition Institute - Southeast Asia Program (IPNI SEAP) and PT Community Solutions International’s Cocoa Care Program, a scalable sustainabili ...
February 25, 2015. Penang, Malaysia – After decades of rapid growth, the oil palm industry in Southeast Asia is now at a crossroads. The industry can choose between business-as-usual with stagnant pro ...
January 6, 2015. Penang, Malaysia – A study of soil properties in six oil palm plantations in Kalimantan and Sumatra suggests positive implications for soil indicators from management practices suppor ...
December 09, 2014. Peachtree Corners, GA, USA – The International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) Board of Director’s approved the joining of Shell Sulphur Solutions as an Ordinary Member. “We are ve ...
December 1, 2014. Penang, Malaysia – PALMSIM, a robust physiological oil palm model has been recently developed by the University of Gottingen, University of Wageningen and the International Plant Nut ...
November 3, 2014. Penang, Malaysia – A new PlantCalc App has been recently released from the International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) as part of its effort to improve the accuracy of nutrient up ...
October 20, 2014. Penang, Malaysia – Oil palm has been commercially cultivated in Southeast Asia for more than a century. Its primary product, fresh fruit bunches (FFB) are highly perishable and once ...
October 7, 2014. Penang, Malaysia – We are excited to announce the launch of a new Cocoa Care program supported by JSC Uralkali. The Cocoa Care program is a highly effective and efficient method for b ...
September 26, 2014. Peachtree Corners, Georgia, U. S. – The winners of the International Plant Nutrition Institute’s (IPNI) 2014 Scholar Award have been selected. “We have had another record response ...
September 18, 2014. Penang, Malaysia – Total crude palm oil production in 1961 was about 1. 5 million tonnes, estimated at US$1. 3 billion. For 2013/2014, production is 58 million tonnes with an estim ...
August 22, 2014. Penang, Malaysia – The 2nd International Symposium on Magnesium in Crop Production, Food Quality and Human Health will be held in São Paulo, Brazil from November 4 – 6 this year. Magn ...
August 5, 2014. Penang, Malaysia – International Plant Nutrition Institute (IPNI) Southeast Asia Program (SEAP) made their presence felt at the recent International Oil Palm Conference in Bali between ...
June 30, 2014. Penang, Malaysia – Leaf nutrient analysis is commonly used as a diagnostic tool to assess the nutrient status of oil palm plants. Many plantations rely on leaf analysis to decide on whi ...
April 11, 2014. Penang, Malaysia – A recent partnership between the International Plant Nutrition Institute - Southeast Asia Program (IPNI SEAP) and PT Community Solutions International’s Cocoa Care p ...
March 15, 2014. Penang, Malaysia – Site-specific nutrient management (SSNM), based on 4R Nutrient Stewardship, shows huge potential in improving crop yield and profitability of maize production system ...
February 17, 2014. Penang, Malaysia – Nutrient Expert® (NE) tested in China has been shown to improve fertilizer use efficiency and farmers’ profits in maize and wheat crops. While farmers in China ha ...
January 16, 2014. Penang, Malaysia – As oil palm cultivation expands in marginal lands with lower conservation value, nutrient management becomes a concern for plantations that now have to deal with l ...
December 10, 2013. Penang, Malaysia – With palm oil extraction rates declining in Malaysia since the 1980s and more recently, in Indonesia, a renewed evaluation process in mills is urgently needed. Th ...
October 25, 2013. Penang, Malaysia – Site-specific nutrient management (SSNM) for white corn in on-farm trials has been found to increase farmers’ yields in the Philippines by following the 4R Nutrien ...
Sep 20, 2013. Penang, Malaysia – Site-specific fertilizer recommendations are now possible for individual smallholder oil palm growers. By adopting a framework that incorporates pre-existing soil maps ...
August 20, 2013. Penang, Malaysia – Best management practices (BMPs) for maize cultivation are now accessible on DVD. This comprehensive video covers important aspects of maize cultivation, from selec ...
July 31, 2013. Penang, Malaysia – With much attention given to the importance of NPK in oil palm nutrient management, sulphur (S) has been largely ignored. Sulphur was hardly an issue in the past, tha ...
June 27, 2013. Penang, Malaysia – Approximately 3 million hectares of land in Vietnam are characterized as grey degraded soils, that is, low in soil fertility due to the parent material and nutrient l ...
May 31, 2013. Penang, Malaysia – According to the Fertilizer Association of India, wheat covers approximately 29 million hectares of land with an annual production of 81 million tonnes between 2009 an ...
March 7, 2013. Penang, Malaysia – The Nutrient Expert® is a simple, computer-based decision support tool for cereal crop intensification. Based on the principles of site-specific nutrient management ( ...
March 7, 2013. Penang, Malaysia – Maize is the third most important food crop in India, after rice and wheat. A high yielding crop that is well-adapted to varying seasons and ecologies, maize has gain ...
January 31, 2013. Penang, Malaysia – The International Plant Nutrition Institute - Southeast Asia Program (IPNI SEAP), together with its partner plantations, has successfully developed a process to de ...
January 09, 2013. Penang, Malaysia – The last fifty years has witnessed a dramatic increase in palm oil production, largely due to plantation area expansions. However, this is no longer feasible for f ...
January 09, 2013. Penang, Malaysia – The World Resources Institute (WRI) has developed an online mapping application that allows users to identify potentially suitable areas for sustainable palm oil d ...
October 01, 2012. Penang, Malaysia – Given the increasing demand for palm oil worldwide, and the reduced availability of land resources in traditional producing countries in Southeast Asia, frontiers ...