Raising productivity: Planters harvest oil palm fruits in Dengkil. A higher fertiliser application is needed to boost the fresh fruit bunch output in the estates.
Fertiliser woes
OF late, the record high fertiliser prices seems to offset upstream planters’ solace in the current strong crude palm oil (CPO) prices and news of a gradual return of some 32,000 foreign workers into the plantation sector.
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