Tough days: Filepic showing a worker harvesting oil palm.
JOHOR BARU: The manpower shortage in the plantation industry has worsened due to the Covid-19 pandemic, affecting the livelihood of more than 600,000 oil palm smallholders nationwide, says the Johor MCA Youth chief.
Ling Tian Soon said despite the strong price of crude palm oil of late, many smallholders were still incurring losses as they were unable to harvest as much as they could previously.
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