YONG PENG, Malaysia, Oct 7 ... Efforts to automate had been slow while producers had easy access to cheap migrant labour able to navigate plantation terrain challenging to machines.

By Mei Mei Chu KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s palm oil producers are racing to adjust to an acute shortage of workers due to the coronavirus and sharply higher costs of recruitment as ...

KUALA LUMPUR: A tight labour market but with stagnant wages. A lack of skilled talent in critical sectors even though such workers do exist. Only enough jobs for one-sixth of Malaysia's 300,000 ...

For years, Malaysia, the world’s top manufacturer of disposable rubber gloves, has faced allegations of exploitation and other gross labor abuses in its rubber and palm oil sectors.

By anchoring policies in resilience, Malaysia can achieve sustainable prosperity, growth that lasts and benefits all, writes ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Bestinet Sdn Bhd, a private entity with political clout that has long had a stranglehold over Malaysia’s migrant labour recruitment system, is set to get a fresh three-year ...

Malaysia to review migrant labour deals to stamp out exploitation. Since last year, thousands of migrants, mostly from Bangladesh and Nepal, have been left in limbo after arriving in Malaysia, ...

Malaysia's palm planters eye robots, drones to combat labour crunch October 6, 2022 | 06:05 pm PT An Indonesian migrant worker, Ari Rohman, pushes a cart as he collects bunches of palm oil fresh fruit ...

Almost 80% of Malaysia's plantation workers are migrants, many recruited from neighbouring Indonesia to do the back-breaking work of harvesting, but pandemic curbs caused a shortfall of about ...

"To harvest 10 tonnes of palm fruits a month, we need two workers," said estate owner Hamidon Salleh. Hamidon, who is also an engineer, said he and his colleagues at Malaysia's University of ...

A research student Muhammad Haziq Ramli shows Terer, a robotic exoskeleton during a testing of the prototype at a palm oil plantation in Yong Peng, Johor, Malaysia, on Sept 8, 2022.