CHALLENGES OF AGRICULTURAL MECHANISATION IN THE OIL PALM INDUSTRY

Although many agricultural practices rely heavily on machinery to aid in thecultivation of their crops, the oil palm industry does the contrary, it persists in the useof manual labour for its arduous and difficult tasks. Due to its importance, an analysisof the current challenges present in palm oil plantations was conducted, mapping outthe difficulties that impede the advance of mechanisation. With the assistance of theScopus database, a compilation of scientific papers was used to build a foundation andextract present and past information, detailing the operation of the fields. It waspossible to identify four groups that accounted for most of the factors inhibiting machinesuccess, including general and spe