IDENTIFIKASI TINGKAT KEKERASAN TANDAN SEGAR BUAH SAWIT BERDASARKAN TANAH TUMBUH MENGGUNAKAN PENETROMETER

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.