KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 5): Malaysia's palm oil inventories at end-October likely swelled to their highest in three and a half years as production improved while imports slumped, a Reuters survey showed on Friday (Nov 4).
Stockpiles were pegged to rise 9.3% from September to 2.53 million tonnes, its largest since April 2019, according to the median estimate of eight traders and analysts polled by Reuters.
MALAYSIAN plantation companies will continue to benefit from the bullish commodities supercycle for another two quarters at least which should help sustain investors’ interest in the sector counters in the short term despite yesterday’s selling.
The benchmark FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI fell 20 points or 1.27% yesterday to 1,582 points while the Plantation Index fell 4.12% or 334.4 points while the Technology Index fell 3.7% on profit-taking by investors.
This in turn brought in huge profits to about 400,000 smallholders nationwide said Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Zuraida Kamaruddin. - NSTP/ AZIAH AZMEE
KUALA LUMPUR: The rise in crude palm oil (CPO) price to record high in recent days has seen smallholders benefit nationwide.
This was after price of Crude Palm Oil (CPO) hit an all-time-high of RM5,750 per tonnes for two consecutive days on Feb 3 and 4, a first in the history of the national palm oil industry,
This in turn brought in huge profits to about 400,000 smallholders nationwide said Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Datuk Zuraida Kamaruddin.