Cocoa Mature Tree - Sidegrafting

Newly sidegrafted patch is properly
wrapped with plastic for safety & to
avoid water from entering the budpatch
which can cause rotting and infection.










Sickly, leaning trees are sidegrafted to get better
straight low-branching cacao tree























Newly opened grafting at 2weeks old






1 year old grafting














Failed grafting

Cocoa Mature Tree - Sidegrafting

Cocoa Mature Tree Sidegrafting

1) Preparing scion 2) Make insertion 3) Insert scion

Cocoa Mature Tree - Sidegrafting

Cocoa Mature Tree: Sidegrafting- Choosing the scion to be used as material for grafting to rejuvinate/improve material plantings on old, sickly and unproductive mature cocoa trees

Cocoa Tree-Biological Control CPB

Beneficial Ants - Effective for control of cocoa pod borer because these predator ants which are naturally present in plants such as coconut is known for sucking the CPB eggs laid along the cocoa pods' skin furrows.

Oil Palm Yield and Future Prices Trend

Business Times

Monday - January 07, 2008

Futures Crude Palm Oil Prices online references:

http://www.palmoilhq.com/PalmOilNews/external-factors-may-set-cpo-futures-direction/