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Oil Palm Podcast

Oil Palm Podcast

Written by: Su-Fah
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 Updates and technologies about oil palm industries.© 2022 Oil Palm Podcast Biological Sciences Politics & Government Science
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  • Impact of Covid-19

    Impact of Covid-19
    Mar 21 2021

    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 know the number of harvester available, we can work out the amount of fruit harvested.
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    3 mins
  • Automation

    Automation
    Mar 7 2021

    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 as a resource, labor is becoming more and more expensive. Automation would strive to cut down labor usage. 
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    3 mins
  • Oil Palm Price

    Oil Palm Price
    Feb 21 2021

    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. 
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    5 mins
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