SINGAPORE: Palm oil bulls will likely hold sway into early 2022 as a chronic worker shortage in No. 2 grower Malaysia and heavier rains than usual in key growing areas disrupt production of the world’s most-consumed edible oil.
That could keep prices elevated after a record year in 2021 when benchmark futures rocketed to an all-time closing high of RM5,071 a tonne.
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