EFFECT OF DIFFERENT FERTILIZERS ON OIL PALM (ELAEIS GUINEENSIS) GROWTH AND PERFORMANCE AT NURSERY STAGE IN FELDA SUNGAI TEKAM.

This paper focused on the use of fertilizer on crop which is gives the best performance on the plant. Type of fertilizer used will give a different effect on crop. The existence of chemical fertilizer such as NPK yellow in the market give an advantage to the farmer in improving crop growth and yield production. As we know that the use of chemical fertilizer became a problem to the farmers, so the fortified fertilizer is necessary as other alternative for expensive chemical fertilizers for small farmers. The cost for fertilizer in plantation also high, especially for large scale crop like oil palm. This experiment was conducted to study the growth and performance of a palm tree (Elaies guineensis) for different type of fertilizers. The experiment was carried out at nursery Pusat Penyelidikan Pertanian Tun Razak (ppptr). The secondary data was collected from the company for 8 months after transplanting of oil palm tree. The data included the plant height, girt size, number of leave and frond length. Data that collected was analysis with Minitab and Microsoft excels application. The result of this study was indicate that there is significant different in the growth and performance of every part of plant. It can be concluded chemical fertilizer give the best result and the fortified organic fertilizer show the good performance same like chemical fertilizer and other fertilizer. This fortified fertilizer also can be use for oil palm seedling.