Assessing soil quality status in Ghana's oil palm smallholder plantations

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Assessing soil quality status in Ghana's oil palm smallholder plantations

Despite continuous governmental initiatives, oil palm yields in Ghana is significantly lower than Southeast Asian nations, being unable to even satisfy domestic demand. It hypothesized that one of the main limiting factors to oil palm production in Ghana is due to poor soil suitability. However, the...

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Main Authors:	Kannesan, Joseph, Rajoo, S. Keeren, Abdu, Arifin, Karam, S. Daljit, Rosli, Zamri, Izani, Norul, Zulperi, Dzarifah
Format:	Article
Published:	Malaysian Society of Soil Science 2023
Online Access:	http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/106725/

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