KUALA LUMPUR: FGV Holdings Bhd has produced a total of 1.06 million tonnes of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) from its 23 regions for the first quarter of this year, 6.6 per cent more than 990,845 tonnes, a year ago.
The Group’s 68 mills processed 3.67 million tonnes of FFB, 8.3 per cent more than 3.39 million tonnes processed in 2018.
Oil extraction rate (OER) for the three months in review improved to 20.76 per cent from 19.75 per cent.
FGV produced a total of 761,832 tonnes of crude palm oil in the first quarter of this year, 13.8 per cent more than 669,534 tonnes, previously.
"FGV has exceeded internal targets and is on track to achieve its 2019 key performance indicators," FGV’s group chief executive officer Dato’ Haris Fadzilah Hassan said, in a statement today.
For the period in review, the group’s key operational performance indicators showed improvement, beating internal targets that were benchmarked against the industry, while taking into account site yield potential and the time required to rehabilitate its estates.
The better operational results can be attributed to several changes that have been made to improve performance, including plantation management and crop evacuation methods.
“As we move into the next phase of our Transformation Plan, we expect FGV’s operational performance to regularise further,” Haris Fadzilah said.
He added that all the Group’s replanting efforts were on track and 17,250ha of old estates would be
replanted in this financial year.