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A Dedicated Contributor and Helper to Palm Industry: MORI, Taiwan the Malaysian government also locked down their borders to prevent the spread of the virus. The sequential chain reaction leads to the labor shortage in the Malaysian palm industry.
Labor shortage results in the unprecedented new high of palm oil Labor shortage causes palm oil yields to drop to an unprecedented low. The low palm oil yield from the biggest palm oil output country, Malaysia, caused the palm oil price to reach its peak at 5424 MYR per ton. This is the highest palm oil price ever recorded in history.
MORI staff and palm farmer doing field test
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s one of the world’s most innovative manufacturers, Jyen Herr Enterprise Co., Ltd. (MORI) specializes in making pro-featured outdoor power tool products that make every job easy. MORI is a company that has built its reputation by producing gardening and agricultural products. Today, MORI is offering the world more pro-featured, affordable power tools than ever that are all backed by our 25-years expertise with strict and precise high standard quality control.
A new change: Mechanization Although companies and officials have been seeking more efficient ways to harvest palm fruits, things had not been moving as fast as the present. Farmers started to use: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Earth auger for palm tree planting. Backpack power sprayer for pesticide. Grass Cutter for weeding. Water pump for irrigation. Palm cutter for palm fruit harvesting. Tractors and carts for delivery.
MORI’s history into the palm industry It all started in 2014, the time we discovered the hard-working load on palm farmers in Malaysia and Indonesia when we were visiting our Malaysian distributors. To ease the farmers’ burden, we utilize our research and design ability on developing tools that could increase the farmers’ productivity.
Current situation: the labor shortage in the Malaysian palm industry Nearly 300 million Indonesian workers worked in the Malaysia palm field, providing most of the workforce. Many of the workers flew back to Indonesia because of COVID-19, and ASIA PALM OIL MAGAZINE | Apr-Jun 2022
History of palm oil price (Picture source from: https://tradingeconomics. com/commodity/palm-oil)
