Golden Agri-Resources announces new planting material to increase CPO yields to ‘highest in industry’

SINGAPORE (May 22): Golden Agri-Resources says its subsidiary, PT SMART Tbk, has developed two planting materials – Eka 1 and Eka 2 – which will “increase crude palm oil (CPO) yields to the highest levels in the industry” without increasing land under cultivation.

The two clones of high-yielding oil palm planting material have been registered in Indonesia’s Catalogue of Seeds, and were approved for use by the Ministry of Agriculture this year on April 21.

They were developed naturally through conventional selection programme and tissue culture from elite palms.

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