As we know, harvesting in oil palm was highly labor intensive. And in our region, the laborers were mostly foreigner. The pandemic has affected the availability of this workforce. Each harvester can roughly harvest about 1.5 to 2.5 MT FFB per day. If we...

What are the benefits of having automation in oil palm plantation management? Firstly, the workflow efficiencies would improve which is going to bring down the cost of production. Secondly, oil palm industry has been labor intensive until today. However...

Today, planters were thinking of abandoning the field, replant oil palm with other crops, selling the farm, lease out the farm and many other measures. There was a lost of faith in this golden crop.