| Components | Good agronomic practices | >0 - 4 years | >4 - 8 years | >8 - 15 years |
| Weeding | -Establishing and maintaining clean weeded circles (weeding at least three times/year). -Establishing and maintaining harvesting paths, every other palm row. -Selective weeding of woody and noxious weeds. -Correct mixing of chemicals in relation to observed weed cover, and effective application. | -Manual weeding, four times/year -Chemical weeding, three times/year | -Manual weeding, four times/year -Chemical weeding, three times/year | -Manual weeding, three times/year -Chemical weeding, two times/year |
| Fertilizer application | -Application of proper and balanced quantities of Urea, Rock phosphate and KCl fertilizers in kg/ha/year or equivalent. -Application of Empty Fruit Bunches as organic fertilizer. | -Apply: N, 168 kg/ha/year P, 140 kg/ha/year K, 252 kg/ha/year
-Apply empty fruit bunches | -Apply: N, 210 kg/ha/year P, 252 kg/ha/year K, 350 kg/ha/year
-Apply empty fruit bunches | -Apply: N, 305 kg/ha/year P, 280 kg/ha/year K, 420 kg/ha/year
-Apply empty fruit bunches |
| Pruning | -Pruning every six months to optimal number of fronds. -Placing pruned fronds in a U-box or along contour lines. | Every six months | Every six months | Every six months |
| Pest and disease control | -Integrated Pest Management (IPM), adopt cultural, biological, mechanical, physical or other less-hazardous strategies to minimize the use of pesticides. | Adopt IPM Methods | Adopt IPM methods | Adopt IPM Methods |
| Harvesting | -Timely harvesting of fruit bunches in the field to maximize quality (i.e. every 10 days). -Harvesting based on a loose fruit minimum ripeness standard. -Collection of all loose fruits. | Every ten days | Every ten days | Every ten days |