The Malaysian Estate Owners’ Association implored the government in a statement on Friday to consider the survival and sustainability of the sector and let grower companies that have been unable to recruit locally hire foreign workers immediately.
The palm-oil industry in Malaysia, the world’s second-largest producer and exporter of palm oil, faces a worsening of its chronic labor shortage. It relies on foreigners for 70% of its plantation workforce and almost all its field work, especially people from Indonesia and Bangladesh. Thousands have left the plantations for home as borders closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, adding pressure in an industry where 2% to 3% of foreign workers leave each year.
“A major concern is that the peak crop production season is around the corner in a few months from now and the palm oil industry is crucially dependent on the availability of workers,” said the association, which represents owners of small and midsize plantations. It said decreased crop production would curb the output of crude palm oil and palm kernels as extraction rates will continue falling beyond this year. While this may push crude palm oil prices up, the association warned unattended plantations could eventually lead to a decline of the industry.
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fleming77 I find myself wishing there were fewer palm plantations.
No Palm is such a shitty product, in a few years it will have the same reputation as Oil
Good chance to minimize the palm-oil industry, which goes to the expense of tropical forests. FridaysForFuture ClimateCrisis
Locals reluctant to work in plantations 😀😇
Hire the locals then.
That’s a bit rich isn’t it, urging to consider the “survival and sustainability”, of palm oil sector, like it did and does that with the tropical rainforests and the orang-utans. palmoil climatechange rainforests deforestation
A good result: ‘the association warned unattended plantations could eventually lead to a decline of the industry.’
let malays pick the bunch or rotten ...
Worst industry on the planet. Malaysians should be ashamed!
Use local worker or get contaminated....
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