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Guides for pekebun kecil

Everything here is grounded in the same numbers the app uses — MPOB’s fertiliser tables, real worked examples in RM and kg. Every guide has a calculator you can run with your own lot before you sign up.

Price & market

Today's FFB price, explained

The arithmetic between the CPO number on the news and what lands in your pocket.

Why FFB price isn’t CPO price

Three real reasons your dealer’s number never matches the CPO price you saw on the news.

What actually moves the price

Stocks, exports and competing oils — what each monthly MPOB release actually means for the price.

Tracking income without losing slips

A simple method for keeping every harvest sale in one place — with or without an app.

Fertiliser

Which fertiliser for which soil

MPOB’s F1–F6 range, matched to soil type and palm age, in plain language.

Kg per palm, by age

MPOB’s yearly dosage by age band, converted straight into bags for your lot.

A fertiliser calendar for the year

Laying out a lot’s rounds across the year, and the one weather signal that should move any single date.

Fertiliser cost per acre

Turning the dosage table into an actual ringgit figure, with a full worked example.

Harvest

Yield per acre: what’s normal

MPOB’s published yield benchmarks, converted to per-acre, so you can check your own numbers against them.

Choosing a harvest interval

Why 14 days is the common default, and when a shorter or longer round makes more sense.

How to tell a ripe bunch

The visual signs a bunch is ready, and why guessing wrong costs money both ways.

What a round really pays after labour

Breaking down the real cost of getting fruit from palm to weighbridge — and what actually lands as profit.

Running the lot

Five numbers to write down

Out of everything that happens on a lot, these five figures are the ones that actually matter.

Is my lot making money?

Gross income minus every real cost, divided by acreage — the one number that actually answers the question.

What a year of running a plot costs

A worked-example annual budget for a 5-acre lot, with every assumption stated so you can swap in your own.

Paper, WhatsApp, Excel or an app

A fair comparison of the four common ways smallholders keep records — and where each one breaks.

Agronomy

Ganoderma: early signs

Oil palm’s most destructive disease in Malaysia — the early signs, and what management actually means.

Pruning: how many fronds, when

The frond-count guideline by palm age, and why cutting too many costs yield rather than saving work.

Young palms, years 0–3

The routine for a palm’s first three years, before it fruits and the harvest rhythm begins.

Soil

Soil types explained

The four common soil types, what each is naturally short of, and how that decides your fertiliser.