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Using land cover legume crops immediately after planting to conserve soil moisture and minimise soil erosion.

This also enriches the soil and prevent nutrient depletion

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High quality seed/seedlings

High quality seedlings increases productivity yield

Reduces costs for medication

Increases Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFB) for more offspring production

same idea as using SPF postlarvae and choosing high quality broodstock

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Using high quality fertilizer in optimal amounts at optimal times

Prevents excessive use of fertilizer

Prevents nutrient loading from run-offs

Prevent low intake of fertilizer by plants due to high quality

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A "zero waste" policy on PO production waste by recycling waste products such as empty palm fruit bunches ("EFB") as organic fertiliser in their plantations and compost.

Nutrient recycling is maximised to improve moisture, nutrients and carbon in the soil.

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Ensure no long-term impacts on surface and ground water quality and availability.

Took all reasonable measures to mitigate impacts during site development activities

Collaborate with local water users in their plantations and mills to monitor water quality and assist them to address concerns collectively.

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Exclude any peat from new plantation developments, to restore peatland where possible and apply best management practice in existing plantings.

Peatland is defined as soil containing greater than 65% organic matter with depth of more than 50cm.

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In general, BMP is a good for ensuring sustainable farming for the environment as well as financially benefit the company in the long run because of the prevention methods mentioned, that can cause a lot of money in damages. Furthermore, BMP helps to cut off unnecessary costs.

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To improve its internal operational procedure to comply with standard and criteria set by Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil (ISPO) & Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)

Bumitama has been a member of the RSPO since 2007 and aims to achieve a RSPO certification for all of its mills by the end of 2024

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Best Management Practices can be achieved only by improving efficiency and productivity in the plantations and mills activities with excellence behaviour through discipline implementation

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Minimal use of chemicals for insecticide & pesticide

Biological/natural remedy

Planted plants to attract natural predators of pests (eg Turnera Ulmifolia and Casia Cobanensis)

Uses Barn Owls for rat control

Example:

Turnera attracts insects like Sycanus that consumes catepillars that eat the leaves of the palm trees

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Why the company chose to operate using BMP practices 

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Why the company chose to operate using BMP practices 

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Social aspects: Meeting the Needs of the Community

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Social aspects: Meeting the Needs of the Community

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created 38 schools for the local villages and enrolled 5,300 students

established 124 child care centers for 2,000 children

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1) Can help reduce soil and fertiliser runoff by implementing Nutrient Management Plans (NMP) to determine how much and when fertilizers should be used on crops. This can help reduce costs of fertilizers as well as limit the amount of runoff that can accumulate

2) Can properly manage animal wastes. This can be done by streamside fencing, which keep livestocks and their wastes out of farm streams and other areas outside of the farm. In return, this will reduce pollution and erosion, as well as reduce the potential spread of waterborne diseases.

3) Prevent erosion of soil which can damage other infrastructure as well as the environment. Continuous no-till (also known as conservation tillage) reduces erosion and runoff by minimizing soil disturbances. This practice also builds the soil's health and its ability to hold moisture. Traditional plowing and tilling, on the other hand, disturbs the soil, leaving it unprotected and allowing more erosion to occur

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Leading producers of palm oil and palm kernel in Indonesia.

Primary business activities are cultivating oil palm trees, as well as harvesting and processing fresh palm fruit bunches into palm oil and palm kernel, which we sell to refineries in Indonesia.

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https://www.bumitama-agri.com/page