Thomas Fairhurst
Biography
Thomas Fairhurst has spent over forty years working in tropical agriculture, accumulating knowledge and experience as a field agronomist.
He was been employed by various international companies and organisations in South East Asia as agricultural advisor and agronomist before returning to the UK in 2008 to establish Tropical Crop Consultants Ltd (TCCL).
Since then he has worked as a consultant in Indonesia, Thailand, Guatemala, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, and Côte d’Ivoire.
Skills
- Fruit bunch yield intensification in oil palm.
- Soil management.
- Oil extraction efficiency.
- Oil palm crop nutrition.
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) for oil palm plantation agronomy.
Education
- BSc in Agriculture (1979) at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
- Diploma in Advanced Farm Management (1980) at the Royal Agricultural University.
- PhD (oil palm agronomy) (1996) from the University of London, Wye College.
Languages
- Native English speaker
- Papua New Guinea Pidgin
- Rudimentary French
- Rudimentary Spanish