Malaysia runs short of palm oil estates

Malaysia, the world’s largest palm oil producer, says that it has almost run out of land suitable for new plantations of the crop, and that it will need to raise productivity of existing trees if it is to tap rising demand.

“In terms of land that is suitable for palm, there’s not much left,” the minister for plantation industries and commodities, Peter Chin Fah Kui, said Tuesday. “As a result, our strategy is to increase the productivity and yield from whatever plantation land that we have now.”
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