RE: Elaeis guineensis Oil Palm as a material of agronomic and economic interest of the Arecaceae family
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Nigeria use to be the highest producer of oil palm in the world before the discovery of crude oil in the 70s. Malaysia imported the seeds from here and look at where they are today when Nigerian can't even be found in the top 5. I'm ashamed for my country in this regard.
Knowing how sturdy the stony endocardp of the seed, how are they planted? Is it naturally or something is administered to break the stony stuff?
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Greetings friend @gentleshaid, the situation in Venezuela is similar to that of Nigeria, here we were producers of Acaitera Palm, however, production has collapsed in the last 3 decades mainly due to disinterest and little government action. In relation to the seed and germination, in our case we received commercial material from Costa Rica, and to be able to deal with the difficulty of germination due to the lignification of the endocardium, the germination process is usually induced, applying a natural drying process until 20% humidity is achieved, then they are submitted to thermal treatment for a period of 6 weeks at 40°C, later they are taken to plastic chambers with controlled humidity at 80%.
It seems developing countries have several things in common, including lackadaisical attitude and corruption of government. It is educating to know that the seeds are pretreated before being nursed. That confirmed my earlier suspicions.