Sago Values

Sago Shipment

Abstract Tropical peatland is a potential land resource for crop production to supply food and energy sources to increasing population. Although sago palm (Metroxylon sagu Rottb.) is a potential starch crop suited to this purpose, prefer control of groundwater level and fertilizer application should be done to maintain the high starch productivity. 

As it is also important to estimate the impact of sago palm cultivation on the environment from the view point of the sustainability, we investigated temporal changes in the chemical properties of drainage water and soil in a sago palm plantation in Indonesia.

Sago Flour (Tapioca Alternative)

Analysis of canal water from blocks with different palm ages during a 2-year period suggested small increases in Ca, K, and Mg concentrations with time (up to 8 years). No time-dependent changes were observed in the concentrations of other nutritional/toxic elements, although the larger concentration in groundwater below sago palm than in canal water was observed for fertilizer components including B, Ca, P, and Zn. Although large portions of Al, Fe, and Zn in canal water were interacted with dissolved organic C (DOC), the leaching of DOC did not vary with the development of palm growth. Contents of nutritional elements were generally similar among soils at 1, 3, and 5 m away from a palm, among soils at 0.1, 0.3, and 0.5 m depths, and between soils in sago palm block and adjacent secondary forest, regardless of plant age. Thus, the sago palm cultivation with fertilizer and groundwater level control did not induce notable deterioration of soil and water qualities.

Where To Buy Sago

Probably, most of the world's population to ask, which places a sago?, This question is not only one we get. Here we offer a sago producing area of ​​the county's largest archipelago Indonesia in Kepulauan Meranti Regency, this is where sago is planted, cultivated, developed in workshops and international transaction.
Among the county-owned product is as follows:

1. corn starch
2. cendol sago
3. sago noodle
4. sago plantation
5. etc.

Analysis of soil samples

Part VI

Total contents of Ca, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Na, and Zn in soil samples were determined with an ICP spectrometer (Liberty 220, Varian, USA) after digestion with HF and HNO3 in a microwave oven (Ethos 900, Milestone, Italy) according to Jones et al. (1991). Exchangeable cations were extracted from the 2002 samples with 1 mol l-1 ammonium acetate with pH regulated to 7 and determined with Liberty 220. pH and ash content of the soil samples collected from P8B19 and P3B3 and their adjacent forests were determined using a suspension of soil sample with distilled water mixed at 1:2.5 (w:v) and by the combustion method, respectively.

Collection of soil samples

Part V

Sago Root

According to Miyazaki et al. (personal communication), no roots were observed[1 m distance from 1- year-old sago palms, whereas 20 and 42% of total roots were distributed between 1 and 2 m distances from 3- and 5-year-old sago palms, respectively. They also observed that the root biomass of 1- to 5- year-old sago palms were concentrated within the surface 30 cm layer.

Analysis of water samples

Sago Starch Milk While Proceeded

Concentrations of Al, B, Ca, Cd, Cr, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Mn, Mo, Na, Ni, P, Pb, and Zn in the water samples were measured with an inductively coupled plasma (ICP) spectrometer (IRIS, Thermo Jallel-Ash, USA). DOC concentration was determined with a total organic C analyzer (TOC-VCPH, Shimadzu, Japan). An aliquot of canal water samples collected from the seven sago palm cultivation blocks in July 2003 and January and July 2004 (20 ml) was fractionated on a column packed with 1.5 ml of anion exchange resin (Q Sepharose Fast Flow, Amersham Biosciences, Sweden) into adsorbed and non-adsorbed fractions. The concentrations of DOC and metallic elements in the non-adsorbed fraction were determined with TOC-VCPH and IRIS, and metallic elements distributed in the adsorbed and nonadsorbed fractions were regarded as organically bound and free cation forms, respectively (Kimura et al. 1998). Ultra-pure water that was passed through the resin under the same conditions as those for canal water samples was analyzed as blank. DOC was almost completely adsorbed to the resin (97 ± 4%). The amount of DOM-bound Ca could not be estimated due to the unexpectedly high recovery exceeding 100%.