PT. TUV NORD Indonesia Approved as RSPO Certification Body
The RSPO Executive Board is pleased to announce their approval of:

PT. TUV NORD Indonesia
Menara Bank Danamon 11th floor Suite 1106
Jl. Prof. Dr. Satrio Kav. E4 No. 6
Jakarta 12950, Indonesia

Palm Oil Chemical Composition

The oil palm produces two types of oils; crude palm oil (CPO) from the fibrous mesocarp and crude palm kernel oil (CPKO) from the kernels. Although both oils originate from the same fruit, palm oil is chemically and nutritionally different from palm kernel oil. It is one of the only two mesocarp oils available commercially, the other being olive oil.
In conventional milling process, the FFB’s are sterilized and the fruitlets stripped off. The loose fruitlets are then digested and pressed to extract the CPO. The kernels are separated from the fibrous mesocarp in the press cake and later cracked to obtained CPKO.

Chemical composition
The palm oil and palm kernel oil are composed of fatty acids, esterified with glycerol just like any ordinary fat. Both are high in saturated fatty acids, about 50% and 80%, respectively. The oil palm gives its name to the 16 carbon saturated fatty acid palmitic acid found in palm oil; monounsaturated oleic acid is also a constituent of palm oil while palm kernel oil contains mainly lauric acid. Palm oil is the largest natural source of tocotrienol, part of the vitamin E family. Palm oil is also high in vitamin K and dietary magnesium.

Palm oil, being a vegetable oils, is cholesterol-free. Having a naturally semi solid characteristic at room temperature with a specific origin melting point between 33ºC to 39ºC, it does not require hydrogenation for use as a food an ingredient.

CPO is deep orange red in colour due to the high content of natural carotenes. Palm oil is rich source of carotenoids and vitamin E which confers natural stability against oxidative deterioration.

Fractionation separates oil into liquid and solid fractions. Palm oil can be fractionated into liquid (olein) and solid (stearin) components.

Palm oil has a balanced ratio of unsaturated and saturated fatty acids. It contains 38.7% oleic acid (monounsaturated fatty acid), 10.5% linoleic acid (polyunsaturated fatty acid), 44.3% palmitic acid, 1% Myristic acid, 4.6% stearic acid (saturated fatty acid) and 0.9% other acids. This composition results in an edible oil that is suitable for use in a variety of food applications.

New Britain Palm Oil Ltd (NBPOL) certified to be in conformance to RSPO Principles & Criteria

Source:Rspo web site.
Agrisoft-Systems congratulates to the achievement


The RSPO is pleased to inform that it has approved for BSI Management Systems Singapore to certify New Britain Palm Oil Ltd (NBPOL) estates in Papua New Guinea as conforming to RSPO Principles and Criteria with PNG National Interpretation indicators and guidance.

The public summary audit report by BSI Management Systems Singapore is available at:
[ http://www.rspo.org/resource_centre/NBPOL%20RSPO%20Certification%20Summary%20Report%20150908.pdf ]

New certificates for sustainable palm oil

Source: http://www.businessgreen.com
A programme to allow large palm oil users to prove that they are supporting sustainable production methods has gone into operation this week. The scheme aims to allow large users - typically manufacturers and retailers of food - to buy GreenPalm certificates that have been registered by palm oil grower United Plantations following an extensive sustainability audit by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO).

"The GreenPalm scheme will enable United Plantations to earn valuable extra income, in direct proportion to their output of sustainable palm oil," said GreenPalm spokesman Bob Norman.

The RSPO measured United Plantations performance against a number of criteria, including legality of operations, economic viability, best practice in operations and environmental and social responsibility.

The company will now be audited annually if it wishes to continue to issue credits.

"This was certainly no "greenwash"; it could not afford to be if we are to achieve our objective of delivering sustainable palm oil," said Norman.

Several more palm oil producers are currently going through the audit process and hope to be certified soon.

Palm oil is used in a vast range of everyday products, including soaps, chocolate bars, ice cream, ready-to-eat meals and margarine.

It is a major source of income for both Indonesia and Malaysia's economies, particularly since EU biofuel targets led to increased growing of the crop in respose to demand from biofuel firms.

European consumption of plant-based fuels is expected to soar from around three million tons last year to more than 30 million tons in 2010.

However, major concerns have been raised about the sustsinability of increased demand for the crop with a number of investigations from environmental groups such as WWF and Friends of the Earth finding that large tracts of rainforest have been illegally cleared to make way for palm oil plantations.

Under such circumstances the carbon savings delivered by palm oil derived biofuels are completely negated as a result of the deforestation with one study claiming that the biofuel can result in levels of carbon emissions that are significantly higher than fossil fuels.

A number of UK firms, including supermarket giant Sainsbury's, have responded to the discovery by pledging to ensure that all the palm oil they buy is sourced from sustainable plantations that do not contribute to deforestation. The RSPO now hopes that sustainability certificates will provide them with a credible means of doing so.

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OMP-AMIS TECHNICAL DOCUMENTATION: CONFIDENTIAL

PT Agrisoft-Systems Indonesia

Jadwal Training OMP

Day 01: 29 July 2008

Training schedule:

• 8:00-10:00 Introducing OMP.

• 10:15-12:00 Installation & set-up (estate level).

1. OMP / OMP GIS installation.

2. Relinking OMP/refresh GIS.

3. Linked table manager.

4. Hands on - View block, DA, Reports, GIS Map, Basic navigation, Access keys.

5. Constant values - agronomy, system administration.

6. Pick up list settings - All data entry requirement.

7. GIS settings.

8. Password maintenance.

• 13:00-14:00 DE principles and data collation / System parameter

• 14:00-16:00 Enter basic block data.

1. New block entry.

• Data collection form – New block data.

• Block entry (3 divisions x 10 blocks).

• Data review (Size and other block specific parameter).

2. Prepare next year (4 years).

3. Prepare first year (1 year).

4. Delete last year.

5. Delete first year.

6. Prepare new development (1 division x 5 block).

7. Append next year.

8. Filter form.

9. Data analysis – Yield/General Production/Printing.

• All DA

• Filter use to generate report

• 16:00-16:30 Q&A

Day 02 – 30 July 2008

Training schedule:

• 8:00-9:00 DE yield and production calculations
  Using Filter settings, data evaluation

• 9:15-12:00 DE yield, harvesting, tree census, Data evaluation

1. Data collection form.– Yield data.

2. Block entry - Yield.

• Tab stop settings. Combo goto.

• Monthly entry.

• On screen filter/sort/Data evaluation.

3. Block entry – Palm census.

4. Red text box update in block entry form.

5. Assign new criteria in pick up list.

6. Update criteria in block entry form.

7. Calculation method - Yield.

8. Data analysis – Yield.

• Yield and Block performance.

• Harvesting round length.

• Harvester productivity.

• Yield statistic.

9. GIS yield.

• 13:00-14:00 DE fertilizer, CR, nutrients, GIS.

• 14:00-16:00 Enter fertilizer and CR data.

1. System settings - Fertilizer type.

2. System settings - Constant values – Fertilizer application method.

3. Pick up list settings - Introduction to soil type, yield potential and yield distribution.

4. Fertilizer entry.

• Recommendation and application entry – single block.

• Nutrient calculation.

• Copy recommendation.

• Reconcilliation.

5. Block entry – Nutrients.

6. Data analysis.

• Nutrients.

• Fertilizer application and requirement.

7. GIS fertilizer.

8. Add-ins Pesticide – Define Active ingridients, define produk, select calculation unit.

9. Add-ins Pesticide – Entry.

10. Add-ins Pesticide - Data analysis.

• Pesticides and Active ingridients.

11. GIS pesticide.

• 16:00-16:30 Present results.

1. All participants prepare 5 reports.

Day 03 – 31 July 2008

Training schedule:

• 8:00-9:00 DE Field Upkeep, YGA, BMP, DA Field upkeep.

• 9:15-12:00 DE yearly data.Data evaluation, update methods .

Topic:

1. Fertilizer entry continue

• 13:00-14:00 DE Add-in Intro.

14:00-16:00 Enter and use add-in data.

1. Topic: Block entry – Field upkeep.

• Environment/P&D.

• Veg. Growth/Management.

• Leaf analysis.

• Soil analysis.

2. Data analysis – Field upkeep.

• Environment/P&D.

• Veg. Growth/Management.

• Leaf analysis.

• Soil analysis.

3. Rainfall entry.

• Block entry form.

• Rainfall entry form.

4. Data analysis – Rainfall.

5. Data analysis – Yield gap.

6. Data analysis – BMP.

16:00-16:30 Present results.

Day 04 – 01 August 2008

Training schedule:

• 8:00-10:00 Training resume

• 10:15-12:00 Advanced system settings, db maintenance.

1. Topic: Add-ins Crop budget.

• Data entry.

  • Prepare conversion rate.

  • Prepare new budget.

  • Budget entry.

  • Copy monthly distribution.

• Data analysis.

2. Add-in Crop Forecast.

• Data entry.

  • Block assignment.

  • BBC count entry.

• Data analysis and reporting.

3. Add-in field upkeep.

• Define scores.

• Data collection form – Inspection.

• Inspection entry.

• Data analysis.

4. Add-in – Crop loss audit.

• Data entry.

• Data analysis/report.

• 13:00-14:00 Q&A.

• 14:00-16:00 OMP enterprise, OMP group.

Topic:

1. OMP add-ins block maintenance.

• Rename/combine division.

• Split division/move block.

• Assign block to field.

• Assign block to LSU.

• Rename/Combine/Split/Delete block.

• Split/Combine database.

2. Importing data from excel sheet

3. Upgrade OMP.

4. OMP Enterprise, setup VPN

5. OMP Group licence,Headquarter setup.

16:00-16:30 Closing training

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