Without harvesters and other essential plantation workers, nothing of consequence moves.
Let’s face it, the real battle for Malaysia’s oil palm industry isn’t fought over presentations with laser-pointers and catered kuih in climate-controlled boardrooms.
It’s happening out in the field – across 5.6 million hectares of estates where the sun blazes, rain pours and planters juggle rising costs, labour shortages and a growing stack of compliance paperwork that seems to multiply faster than the loose fruit on the ground.
