Sabah urged to allow estates to resume ops

The shutdown of the estates and mills has affected nearly 75% of Sabah’s CPO production and about 100,000 workers

KUALA LUMPUR: A prolonged shuttering of Sabah’s oil palm estates and milling operations would result in mounting crop losses, heightened social tensions and a lost social economic opportunity for the state during this downturn.

The state government of Sabah, which has 1.54 million hectares of oil palm planted area, has ordered estates and mills in six districts to shut until April 14 after some workers were tested positive for Covid-19.