Sime Darby Plantation group managing director, Mohamad Helmy Othman Basha
PETALING JAYA: Sime Darby Plantation Bhd
(SDP) expects to eliminate the need for manual workers in all non-harvesting activities by the end of 2023 after it has successfully mechanised several tasks across its Malaysian plantation operations.
“We expect to reduce the number of plantation workers by 55% by the end of 2023 and by the end of 2024, improve our land-to-man ratio to 1:17.5 or one worker for every 17.5 hectares (ha),” SDP group managing director Mohamad Helmy Othman Basha said in a statement.
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