Evaluation of Soil Stabilizer in Oil Palm Plantation Road Construction

Abstract

Plantation road construction is an important part that requires a serious planning. Any negligence in constructing and maintaining the roads will affect the infield transportation time of the harvested agricultural products as well as the process of bringing out the agricultural products to the needs. Moreover, weather conditions will make the roads impassable and create poor road surfaces which cause damage to the vehicles. Hence, without regular maintenance and resurfacing, these roads will have limited useful lives. This paper has done the laboratory work to evaluate the unconfined compressive strength of oil palm soil by using the FJ-Adtech additive stabilisers as an enhancing medium. Lahad Datu plantation soils were mixed well with additive loadings of 14 wt. % up to 20 wt. % and being pressed at 100 kPa in compacted form sample with the size of 100 mm (height) x 50 mm (diameter). The results showed that the FJ-Ad treatment effectively improved the strength characteristics of Lahad Datu soil (4311 kPa) at 20 wt. % of loading percentage compared to the untreatment soil (1382 kPa). Field work observation also showed that the road construction surfaces treated with the stabiliser formulation showed less maintenance as 6% to 7 % cheaper compared to the conventional method. Therefore, this additive stabiliser is suitable to be used as soil treatment in the formulation for making the road surfaces more durable, less permeable and less compressed than the native soil.

Adoption of mechanization alternatives in oil palm crops in the Colombian Orinoquía natural region

“…This study shows the availability of mechanized technologies that have shown their efficiency in cutting, lifting, and collecting oil palm bunches, such as motorcycle trailers, grabbers, and minitractors with trailer, grabber and cableway systems (Alfonso et al, 2009b(Alfonso et al, , 2009aMahadi et al, 2018;Shuib et al, 2011Shuib et al, , 2020. However, the results also show low adoption of the most efficient technologies; the difficulty in mechanizing FFB harvesting processes is evident in studies conducted in Malaysia (Nawi et al, 2015;Norhajijah et al, 2021).…”

“…Similarly, the introduction of agricultural mechanization was positively correlated with the increase in crop yield (Norhajijah et al, 2021). Moreover, the mechanization of oil palm plantations has helped improve working conditions, in addition to attracting the manual labor sector of young people previously uninterested in working in oil palm plantations (Shuib et al, 2011;Syarifudin & Zareen, 2021).…”

REVIEW OF VIBRATION-BASED SURFACE & TERRAIN CLASSIFICATION FOR WHEEL-BASED ROBOT IN PALM OIL PLANTATION

“…For a robot to manoeuvre successfully, we must take into consideration of multiple surfaces and their characteristics. have sandy soil with poor clay content and very low moisture instead (Shuib et al, 2020).…”

Robotic Research Platform for Agricultural Environment

“…The classification of road types adopted in this research draws upon several studies (Eco Synergy Solution Sdn. Bhd., 2018;Putra et al, 2021;Shuib et al, 2020; Wiranda (M) Sdn. Bhd., 2020).…”

“…Each soil type has unique characteristics, such as water retention capacity, coarseness, buoyancy, and machine traversability. Clay soils swell during the rainy season, weakening road surfaces and potentially causing potholes (Shuib et al, 2020). Sandy soils drain quickly after rainfall, while peat soils have a spongy texture and wheel floatation issues, challenging machinery navigation (Woittiez et al, 2016).…”