date:Nov 13, 2015
, when the last El Nio was in play. But the growth cycle of oil-palm fruits means the extent of damage isnt expected to be known until early in 2016.
A lot of plantations are having a really hard time, said Augyawati Joe, spokeswoman for the Indonesia Palm Oil Association, but it isnt yet showing up in production figures.
Harvest continues as normal even though much of Malaysia and Indonesia is smothered in smoke from fires set by landowners to clear land for new plantings of palm-oil and pulp