date:Aug 05, 2014
on is by how much, said Carl Bek-Nielson, chief executive of Danish-Malaysian United Plantations.
We don't expect a bumper crop in the second half as a function of the very dry weather and the stress the palm tress were exposed to in the first half, he added.
Fears of an El Nino have not entirely disappeared, either.
The Australian Bureau of Meteorology said on July 29 that Pacific Ocean temperatures had eased in recent weeks but that an El Nino could not be ruled out, even though it was incr