date:Mar 06, 2019
Crop-friendly weather over the last few months in top palm oil producers Indonesia and Malaysia will help drive up output of the edible oil, traders and industry players said, underscoring forecasts of record production for 2019.
But reduced usage of fertilizer, labor shortages and older trees in Malaysia could limit growth in output of the commodity, used in products ranging from soap to biofuels.
Record production from the two Southeast Asian countries, which account for over 80 percent of g