Abstract:

The use of Geographical Information System (GIS) has spread very widely amongst the sciences and it is now an accepted tool for many disciplines including agriculture area. Feature which allow spatial data handling, manipulation and analysis were also found suitable as additional tools for oil palm breeders in their evaluation processes. This provides more accurate breeding maps and improved data capturing within an accepted level of accuracy. The paper outline FELDA’s approachin considering the potential of applying GIS into its oil palm breeding trials. The GIS database if Trial T162 in Kota Gelanggi 6 station was constructed and integrated with its attribute to facilitate the spatial analysis of the progeny trial. The spatial analysis was then transformed as maps indicating different yield profile for each progeny in all replicates.