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Two years ago, Razalee Ismail met a client who wanted to know if the drones developed by his company could be used to spray fertiliser on mature palm oil trees.

“I hesitated. I said it’s impossible because our drones are huge and the crowns (the upper part of the trees where the fronds sprout) of mature palm oil trees could get in the way,” says the founder and CEO of Meraque Services, a Selangor-based automation solutions company.

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