Despite efforts by Hargy Oil Palms to improve smallholder production, the smallholder continued to lag and yields were low. There is evidence from smallholder production records that harvesting rounds for VOPs have been declining and much lower than that of the LSS blocks. In 2017, PNGOPRA was approached by Hargy Oil Palms to investigate the low harvesting frequency on VOP blocks. The study was conducted to investigate and identify possible factors that impacts decline in harvesting frequency.
