Mechanised operations: A worker walks past palm oil fruit bunches ahead of sterilisation inside a mill at a palm oil estate in Gemas, Johor. Most of the operations in plantations are mechanised and are relatively easy to handle, with the exception probably of harvesting. — Bloomberg
THERE has been much hype of late about the commodity industry needing to offer jobs to Malaysians, who are affected by the Covid-19 pandemic, and move away from its heavy reliance on foreign workers.
Truly, some 80% of the workers are foreign and it is a sector shunned by Malaysians. Why?
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