Why remove 1st round mutual fruit from young palm tree?

Any fresh fruit grow in the early stage is small and not economically. Why?

Business people only talk about Profit and Lost account. If the following formula is true, than it is worth to harvest, or otherwise.

(Fresh Fruit Weight / 1000Kg) X Fresh Fruit Price > Transport Cost + Labor Cost

The fresh fruit is approximate a palm size, weight may be range from 2 kilogram to 3 kilogram, as a result, an acre of land may yield less than 50 Kilogram per harvest cycle. Because it is a young tree, the palm oil collector may buy below the market price, you may end waste your own money.

Now a day, a lot of farm outsource everything, so this is the breakdown of their service charge as follows :-

1. Transportation Cost RM15 per tons
2. Harvest Cost RM28 per tons
3. Loading Cost RM22 per tons

To take note, the price may varies from location to location. So, you may end up paying the palm oil collector for their effort! Alternative, remove all fruits that is palm site from the palm tree make more sense. Another reason was make the palm tree grow stronger, so subsequent palm fruit will be bigger than your palm side, as show in the diagram above.

A grow up (5 years old to 10 years old) palm tree a fresh fruit can weight up to 20 kilogram per fruit, to certain extend, some of the fresh fruit may weight 60 kilogram.