date:Feb 14, 2016
El Nios impact on agricultural output in Asia is starting to show through in official data, with a near-20% drop in palm-oil production in Malaysia last month the clearest example yet.
Dry weather and a choking haze that hung over palm-oil plantations in Southeast Asia for two months last autumn have reduced yields from oil palms, with production analysts and plantation owners now expecting output to remain low for the first half of 2016.
Malaysias total crude palm-oil production in January fe