Malaysian oil palm industry on the hunt for harvesting tools that boost worker output
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POUND for pound, palm oil has a huge edge over alternatives squeezed out of canola, soya beans or sunflowers.
It is more versatile - found in everything from chocolates to cosmetics - and far more productive. The fleshy fruit yields five times more oil per acre than canola and has eight times the yield of soya beans.
