'More mechanisation needed'


  • Nation
  • Sunday, 03 Oct 2004

MIRI: The Plantation Industries and Commodities Ministry wants to see more mechanisation in the plantation sector to reduce the amount spent on labour, especially foreign workers. 

Minister Datuk Peter Chin Fah Kui said the ministry was worried about the high labour cost in the sector, as it now constituted some 40% of total production cost.  

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