Abstract

Oil palm smallholder is one of the main contributors towards the oil palm industry in producing fresh fruit bunch for crude palm oil production in mill. The production form the smallholder would be around quarter of oil palm production for GDP for every year. However, nowadays sustainability of oil palm production was the key to bring a good quality of oil palm since the land sources become limited to b expended. As the remedy on this problem precision agriculture is the best way improve the quality of the production and it also will increase profitability of the smallholder itself. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) or drone in remote sensing the branch of technology that been developing to improve the efficiency of management practices for smallholder in their planting area. The application type of UAV itself is variety that includes in vegetation health and disease detection, pest monitoring and yield monitoring. Somehow there are lot barrier to implement this technology since social demographic factor and readiness of the smallholder to move from conventional practices to precision farming. Those factors are cost, land area, labor and age that need further investigation to point out their major factor that restricts them