Abstract:
The soil used for fresh fruit bunches of oil palm is mineral soils and peat soil FFB
is the main source of crude palm oil (CPO), to obtain fruit with good quality. The
sorting and grading processes will be important in the process of selecting high
quality CPO. This study is aimed to identification the hardness level of oil palm
fruit based on growing soil using a penetrometer. Oil palm of growing soils are
collected by tenera oil palm of mineral and peat soils by three ripeness levels as
unripe, ripe and overripe. Bunches of fresh palm fruit are taken 3 bunches for each
ripeness. Each sample is taken five fruit, the hardness is detected by a
penetrometer by pressing each midpoint of the palm fruit of each level of ripeness.
The results obtained are quite good where each level of ripeness showed results
different, where the more ripe the fruit from the FFB of oil palm will be the softer
are obtained mineral soil and peat soil.
