Impact of Covid-19

Published: March 21, 2021, 3 a.m.

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.