Field Maintenance: 

Don't Start Today by Doing Yesterday's Work

For decades, palm oil businesses have intended to stand on the strong grounds and methodologies to care and drive the utmost success of their plantations. However, with the laborious tasks of harvesting, a key part of the success formula often receives very little attention... Maintenance.

The complexities of maintaining thousands of hectares at a time can prove to be a challenge, especially when the standard list of maintenance activities for quality yield involves resource-demanding work such as:

The Standard Maintenance Workload

We understand that all the above exercises are time-consuming and very difficult to document due to the copious amounts of paperwork and filing required to be up to date and on top of all of your tasks, whilst maintaining high yield and productivity in your operations.

Digitalising Plantation Maintenance with PMMP

By digitalising these processes with PMMP, our smart and remote Agricultural Management platform, plantations continue to drive high yields whilst assuring field quality.

It is imperative for plantation businesses to harness, analyse, and action the data within their estate for effective planning and plantation management. Remote capabilities enable managers up to the supervisory teams at the HQ level to truly encourage data-driven decisions.

Today, over 1.5 Million hectares of plantation businesses are effectively managing their maintenance activities with PMMP Maintenance Modules.

Key Digitised Maintenance Modules:

• Fertiliser Management
• P & D Management
• Weeding Management

AI-Powered Maintenance Through Precision Agriculture

Nano Precision makes a big difference in yield, cost, and efficiencies for plantations. Our drone services, embedded with AI-powered computer vision algorithms combined with the brain of PMMP, bring a new level of precision to oil palm plantations—driving closed-loop preventative maintenance.

The PMMP Decision Support System (DSS) leveraging Drone AI significantly simplifies assessment and treatment activities in the field. With closed-loop monitoring, fields are maintained timely and efficiently with reduced manpower, providing considerable savings on resources compared to conventional census methods.

Using drone AI not only provides greater area coverage, higher density, and more accurate results, but it also improves data integrity. This enables management to implement data-driven actions, increasing labour productivity and minimising task completion time. With continuous time, labour, and financial savings, it is essential for all agri-businesses to venture into this sustainability practice using the PMMP drone DSS.

Advanced Precision Features

• Precision Auto Tree Counting: AI-powered automated tree counting with 99.5%+ accuracy. Order precise fertiliser with an accurate stand count.
• Plant Health: Spot unhealthy trees and prescribe targeted nutrient application.
• Precision Terracing: Generate a digitised terrace model with accuracy up to 5cm.
• Vacant Points: Find vacant points and supply them to maximise planting density.
• Digitised Plantation: Create a digitised plantation inventory featuring roads, buildings, water sources, topography, and plant density.
• Digitised Terrace & Planting Point Model: Digitised planting point modelling with terrace and other infrastructure plans.

"PMMP: An Approach to Increase Yields & Productivity"

The Closed-Loop Maintenance Workflow with PMMP

1. PMMP Drone Imaging: Accurate over-canopy imagery.
2. Area Statement: For effective supply and action planning.
3. Plant Density: Maximising land usage.
4. Vegetation Index: Effective use of fertiliser.
5. P&D Treatment & Census: Proactive checks on tree health.
6. Fertiliser Management Program: Effective use of chemicals.
7. Palm Re-Supply Program: Increase yield per hectare.
8. Performance Dashboards & Analysis: Decision support and action plans.
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(Source: Asia Palm Oil Magazine | Jul-Sept 2020)