Expanding Oil Palm Research Centre

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At the Univanich Oil Palm Research Centre (OPRC) the tissue culture laboratory is expanding operations with more than 60,000 cultures under management. In the picture above the company’s Tissue Culturist Jeerawan Saengsawang displays cultures which have already become embryogenic, forming shoots of the next generation of oil palm clones.

Minister in Bunch Analysis Lab

Minister of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Dr Teera Sutabutr, together with a group of senior officials recently visited the Univanich seed production unit. Pictured above, the minister and his group visit the bunch analysis laboratory where fruit from new progenies in the company’s breeding programme is carefully analysed for bunch composition, including high oil content.

Univanich Palm Oil PCL has been a pioneer of the oil palm industry in Thailand since the company’s first plantations were established back in 1969. Today, Univanich is Thailand’s leading producer of crude palm oils and high quality oil palm seeds.