Impacts of empty fruit bunch applications on soil organic carbon in an industrial oil palm plantation
Lauriane Marie Noirot, Dorette Müller‐Stöver, Resti Wahyuningsih, Helle Sørensen, Sudarno Sudarno, Abedgeno Simamora, Pujianto Pujianto, Suhardi Suhardi, Jean‐Pierre Caliman
Abstract
of carbon were sequestered under the harvesting path after 21 years. Focussing on the mineral nutrition value of the EFB, oil palm companies apply a rate of 60 t of EFB every second year for their commercial production, and the analysis of three commercial plots showed that the commercial rate only increased POX-C while it had no effect on the total SOC and SOC stocks. It seems obvious that a change of paradigm is necessary to consider EFB recycling as a new management perspective, where the potential for carbon sequestration becomes an important variable for climate change mitigation besides the initial objective of integrating EFB application into the fertiliser management plan of a plantation.