Lower output in Malaysia would curb inventories in the country and further boost benchmark futures , which are already near their highest levels in about 2-1/2 years

In May, Malaysia put forward a plan to send orangutans abroad as trading gifts in an effort to allay concerns about the impact on the animals' habitat of palm oil production

Migrant workers, especially from Indonesia, India, Bangladesh and Nepal, make up about 80% of the workforce on Malaysia's labour-reliant estates