Severe shortage: The oil palm industry in Malaysia is still short of around 50,000 workers, of which nearly 32,000 are needed as palm fruit harvesters in the estates nationwide. The remaining 18,000 are mostly for general work in the estates and mills.
PLANTERS are bracing for further crop losses this year, should the current acute shortage of workers in the oil palm plantations is left unresolved.
Although crude palm oil (CPO) is trading at a 13-year high of RM4,000 per tonne, industry expert MR Chandran says the plantation industry stands to suffer crop losses as high as 12% to 18% of the total CPO production in 2021.
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