SDP grapples with worker shortage issue


Sime Darby Plantation's Group Managing Director, Mohamad Helmy Othman Basha

KUALA LUMPUR: After posting a stellar first-half 2022 results, Sime Darby Plantation Bhd (SDP) group managing director Mohamad Helmy Othman Basha says the planter’s second-half year performance is expected to be impacted by softening crude palm oil (CPO) prices and a shortage of migrant workers in the country.

“We are short of 4,000 harvesters. We are hoping to get more harvesters from Indonesia by year-end.

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