Palm Oil Plantation

Palm Oil Plantation
Industry: primary
Agriculture type: plantation agriculture
Purpose
->Commercial farming
· Raw materials for secondary industries

-Input
1) Land
· Large plots of land along travel routes of johor
· Located near carefully set-up processing factories
2) Capital
· Funds for pesticides
· Funds for labour (manual for harvesting)
· Funds for processing (heavily automated/mechanized)
· Funds for transporting goods to the processor
3) Labour
· Mostly manual with help of simple machinery
· Vehicles used for transport

4) Output
· One variety of crop
· Palm seeds->palm oil etc

Characteristics
->Plantation area
· Near a processing plant
· Has smaller transport routes converging into one larger transport route
· Has trees of about the same height (2m+)
· Home to weevils and barn owls (predominant creatures)
· In a secluded spot, away from the main city
· Near worker’s residential area
· Decent draining systems
· Little use of machinery/ mostly manual labour
· Skilled workers (are able to farm palm fruit bunches efficiently)
· Produces Fruit bunches consisting close to 1000 fruit (1 palm seed)
· On relatively flat land
->Processing area
· Use of machines
· Heavy lifting equipment
· Located near the plantation
· Rest area for workers
· Tools for mass production
· Highly mechanized but manual labour is still required
· Produces large quantities of by-products
· Two way transport routes
· Decent drainage systems
· Located in-between plantations