Astra Crude Palm Oil Output Up 3.8%

Astra Crude Palm Oil Output Up 3.8%

JAKARTA: Indonesian plantation company PT Astra Agro Lestari said Wednesday that its crude palm oil output in the first 11 months of 2002 rose 3.8% from the year-earlier period to 502,770 metric tons.

The company said the increase in CPO production was mainly driven by a 5.3% on-year increase in production of fresh fruit bunches and an increase in the extraction rate to 23.1% from 22.3%.

Astra Agro is a unit of PT Astra International Indonesia. -- Dow Jones