PalmElit: CIRAD® oil palm seeds

Planting material and propagation Sustainable agriculture
PalmElit implements the genetic improvement and marketing programmes for CIRAD® oil palm seeds.
Palmier PalmElit à très haut rendement

Very high yielding PalmElit palm © Tristan Durand-Gasselin, CIRAD

Following on from IRHO (1941) then CIRAD (1984), PalmElit has been conducting the genetic improvement and marketing programmes for CIRAD® oil palm seeds since its creation in 2009. Its breeding programmes involve 64 PalmElit and CIRAD researchers,engineers, Ph.D. students and technicians.

Features

PalmElit proposes seeds intended to guarantee regular incomes for family farms and agroindustries. Its seeds are improved to meet the expectations of the main stakeholders in the supply chain:

  • For growers: a large number of bunches even under unsuitable climatic conditions, better resistance to the main diseases, moderate vertical growth to increase the life span of the plantation and for easy harvesting.
  • For processors and the agrifood industry: a better extraction rate, an oil with characteristics adapted to the different markets and with lower acidity.

Services

  • Commercial competence: Reactivity, fiability, and innovation are values shared by the teams.
  • Inclusive Business: Differents exploitations and companies interact among the chain.

Intellectual rights

Cirad® is a registered trademark.

PalmElit is a RSPO member and is actively involved in the sustainable development of oil palm growing thanks to its major work to improve the species.

How to get it

Oil palm seeds are distributed by PalmElit and authorized distributors.

For more information about seeds, price quote, payement terms delivery times, contact @PalmElit .

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