Ladang Sri Mendapat Ffp Case Study

The task has been done at ‘Ladang Sri Mendapat 2’ with palms of 25 years old by using 40 ft. pole with a sickle attached at the end of it. The average bunch weight was about 22kg and an assumption was made by the supervisor that the harvester can harvest 1.5 mt of FFB. The next task was done at ‘Ladang Lembah Kesang1’ for 3 years old palms by using 5 - 7 inch chisel as shown in Figure 2.8. The revenue calculation of FFB yield are shown in Table 2.15.

Figure 2.8 : Supervisor shows the way of harvesting bunches at 3 years old palm

Table 2.15 : Revenue of FFB yield
Average bunches 55
Average palms 14
Average bunch weight / kg 3.3
Total weight harvested (mt) / worker 3.3 kg x 55 bunches
= 181.5 kg / 1000 mt
= 0.18 mt/worker
Number of workers 3
Total weight harvested (mt) / 3 workers 0.18 mt x 3 = 0.54 mt
Duration for each harvesting round (minutes) 15
Harvesting rounds / hour 60 minutes/15 minutes = 4 times/hour
Working hours / day 4 hours/day x 4 times/hour x 0.54 mt = 8.64 mt
Price / mt RM70
Total price RM70 x 8.64 mt = RM604.80

2.1.7. Pest Management

Barn Owl

Owl, Tyto alba javanica is used to control rats problem at field such as Rattus argentiventer, Rattus tiomanicus and Rattus diardii. Therefore, barn owl is build from north to south. The reason of build pattern is to prevent sunlight penetration into the barn. This biological control method was done after full percentage identification of rats population at field area. The placement of barn owl is in every 5 –